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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. In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?
(a) 1821
(b) 1844
(c) 1805
(d) 1776
2. In the folk tale of La Llorona which is cited in “Woman Hollering Creek,” the heroine is not allowed into heaven until she has found what?
(a) Her Bible
(b) Her husband
(c) Her children
(d) Her mother
3. Describing Seguin, Texas, the narrator states “This town with its silly pride for” what “the size of a baby carriage in front of the city hall”?
(a) A bronze pecan
(b) An anchor
(c) A quartz crystal
(d) A petrified log
4. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?
(a) Knowledge
(b) Children
(c) Wealth
(d) Love
5. Juan Pedro wants to marry Cleofilas right away for what reason?
(a) They have had a baby
(b) His father insists he marry or he will be disinherited
(c) She is pregnant
(d) He can’t take much time off work
Short Answer Questions
1. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?
2. The narrative of “Woman Hollering Creek” is related primarily from what point of view?
3. Graciela tells her friend on the telephone that Cleofilas has what all over her body?
4. 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?
5. On the nights when Juan Pedro does not come home, Cleofilas is said to lie on “her side of the bed listening to the hollow roar of” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Cleofilas compare romantic love to the love between parent and child?
2. How is the myth of La Llorona described historically? What character is La Llorona similar to in the telenovelas described in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
3. What is foreshadowed by Don Serafin’s thoughts in the beginning of “Woman Hollering Creek”? How does he express his thoughts?
4. What is the turning point for Cleofilas and her perceptions of identity in the story?
5. Why does Cleofilas plead with Juan Pedro to take her to the doctor in the story?
6. How does the meaning of the creek’s name change to Cleofilas at the end of the story?
7. How is the first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas described in the narrative? How does Cleofilas react?
8. What conversation do you imagine takes place between Cleofilas and Graciela at the clinic?
9. How would you characterize the plot structure of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
10. What about the creek by her house fascinates Cleofilas after her marriage? How does she pursue this matter?
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