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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. The first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas, the narrator describes her lip bleeding like what?
(a) A sunflower
(b) A cockscomb
(c) An orchid
(d) A rose

2. What phrase from the story is translated from Spanish as “Do you understand?”
(a) Mariachi
(b) La consentida
(c) Entiendes? Pues
(d) Mal aire

3. Dolores’ house is said to smell strongly of what in the story?
(a) Incense and candles
(b) Diapers
(c) Beer and cigarettes
(d) Cats

4. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Weeps openly
(b) Cuts his hair
(c) Cuts his fingernails
(d) Beats the children

5. What genre of which Sandra Cisneros is associated, refers to literature written by Mexican Americans in the United States?
(a) Chicano literature
(b) Spanish literature
(c) Modernist literature
(d) Absurdist literature

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?

2. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?

3. Which of Cleofilas’ neighbors considers herself a widow but never mentions her husband?

4. Where does Juan Pedro say he’ll take Cleofilas to buy her wedding dress?

5. Which character takes over the narration in the third section of “Woman Hollering Creek”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Juan Pedro behave toward Cleofilas after he has beaten her for the first time? What is Cleofilas’ response?

2. Where does Cleofilas go to watch telenovelas in Seguin? What plotline is described from the show she most enjoys?

3. What is significant about the names “Felice,” “Graciela,” and “Cleofilas” in the story? What meanings do these names have?

4. What is Cleofilas’ reply when Juan Pedro asks her why she is anxious about seeing the doctor?

5. How does Cleofilas respond to her father’s statement in the opening of the story? Why does she react in this way?

6. How does Cleofilas compare her life to the lives of the heroines of the telenovelas?

7. How does Cleofilas compare Juan Pedro to the male stars of the telenovelas?

8. What happens when Cleofilas meets Felice in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

9. What about the creek by her house fascinates Cleofilas after her marriage? How does she pursue this matter?

10. Where does the character of Dolores live? How is this character and her home described in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

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