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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?
(a) Use pepper spray
(b) Strike back
(c) Call the police
(d) Run away

2. Cleofilas considers that her husband and the other men at the bar are “nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like” what?
(a) A gold doubloon on the sea floor
(b) A friend in a grave
(c) A stone on a mountaintop
(d) A ring in a drainpipe

3. The laughter that emerges from Cleofilas’ throat at the end of the story is described as “a long ribbon of laughter” like what?
(a) Water
(b) An avalanche
(c) Wind
(d) Lava

4. The cover of a Mexican news–magazine that depicts graphic images of death and mutilation is described by the narrator as having a lover on the cover photographed with what object that “she used to salvage her good name”?
(a) A smoking gun
(b) A rusty knife
(c) A weathered hatchet
(d) A bloody fork

5. The narrator states early in the story, “To suffer for love is” what?
(a) Expected
(b) Good
(c) Essential
(d) Terrible

6. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?
(a) At the library
(b) At school
(c) In church
(d) At work

7. Graciela’s friend agrees to meet Cleofilas at a business by what interstate in order to take her to the bus station?
(a) I-35
(b) I-70
(c) I-5
(d) I-10

8. When was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) 1954
(b) 1946
(c) 1941
(d) 1935

9. Corin Tellado was a prolific Spanish writer of what genre?
(a) Science fiction novels
(b) Romance novels
(c) Historical novels
(d) Modernist novels

10. Felice asks Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “Did you ever notice how nothing around here is named after” what?
(a) An animal
(b) A human being
(c) A woman
(d) The Bible

11. Regarding Cleofilas’ feelings for Juan Pedro, the narrator states, “She has to remind herself why she loves him when she changes” what?
(a) The baby’s Pampers
(b) Her clothes
(c) Her daily routine
(d) The bed sheets

12. Describing Cleofilas’ name, Graciela suggests she is named after what?
(a) A Mexican saint
(b) A Queen of Spain
(c) A grandmother
(d) A wildflower

13. Dolores’ garden is famous for what flowers that must be supported with broom handles and old boards?
(a) Orchids
(b) Roses
(c) Sunflowers
(d) Cockscombs

14. Felice tells Cleofilas that she doesn’t have what?
(a) A husband
(b) A vehicle
(c) A job
(d) A home

15. Cleofilas and Juan Pedro plan to get married in what season?
(a) Spring
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) Autumn

Short Answer Questions

1. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that the houses are what?

2. Of Woman Hollering Creek, the narrator says that “no one could say whether the woman had hollered from anger or” what?

3. Graciela tells her friend on the phone that she would take Cleofilas to the bus station herself, but Cleofilas needs to be gone before what?

4. What does Cleofilas sip “until it grows warm” when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?

5. What does the baby do as he pulls up fistfuls of grass by the creek?

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