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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) San Jose, California
(b) Chicago, Illinois
(c) Concord, New Hampshire
(d) Denver, Colorado
2. Cleofilas tells her husband that she has a doctor’s appointment on what day of the week and asks him to take her?
(a) Wednesday
(b) Friday
(c) Monday
(d) Tuesday
3. On what day of the week does Dolores take flowers to the grave of her husband and sons?
(a) Sunday
(b) Wednesday
(c) Thursday
(d) Tuesday
4. What does Juan Pedro do after beating Cleofilas for the first time, and the times after it?
(a) He beats himself
(b) He laughs
(c) He weeps
(d) He calls his mother
5. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?
(a) Birds
(b) Europeans
(c) Poetry
(d) Jewels
Short Answer Questions
1. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?
2. Felice asks Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “Did you ever notice how nothing around here is named after” what?
3. What kind of vehicle is Felice driving when she arrives to meet Cleofilas?
4. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?
5. Corin Tellado was a prolific Spanish writer of what genre?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Juan Pedro promise to take Cleofilas to obtain her wedding dress? Why does he want to marry quickly?
2. How does Cleofilas compare her life to the lives of the heroines of the telenovelas?
3. How does the narrator describe the setting where Cleofilas and Juan Pedro live after marrying?
4. What is demonstrated through the author’s use of foreshadowing in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
5. How would you describe the use of “archetypes” and “stereotypes” in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
6. What is Cleofilas’ reply when Juan Pedro asks her why she is anxious about seeing the doctor?
7. What kind of support does Soledad offer to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
8. How does Graciela describe Cleofilas and her condition to Felice? What does she ask Felice to do?
9. Why are the telenovelas important to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”? How do they inform Cleofilas’ identity?
10. What arrangements do Graciela and Felice make over the phone in the story? What urgency is illustrated in their plan?
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