1. What is the name of Cleofilas’ son in the story?
(a) Ricardo Xavier
(b) Alejandro Eduardo
(c) Juan Pedrito
(d) Guillermo Clemente

2. Juan Pedro feels that if Cleofilas “had any brains in her head she’d realize he’s been up before” what, “earning his living”?
(a) The dog
(b) The rooster
(c) The cows
(d) The sheep

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

4. What Spanish phrase in the narrative translates to “bad luck”?
(a) Mala suerte
(b) Mariachi
(c) Mal aire
(d) Mi querida

5. What is the name of the city where Cleofilas was born and raised?
(a) Seguin
(b) Mexico City
(c) Laredo
(d) Monclova

Short Answer Questions

1. In the town where Cleofilas grew up, the narrator says “there isn’t very much to do except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one or the other to” do what?

2. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?

3. How many sons did Dolores lose in the last war?

4. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?

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

(see the answer key)

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