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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the left when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Soledad
(b) Graciela
(c) Lucia
(d) Chela

2. On what day of the week does Dolores take flowers to the grave of her husband and sons?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Sunday
(c) Thursday
(d) Wednesday

3. 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 children
(b) Her mother
(c) Her Bible
(d) Her husband

4. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?
(a) Victor Silvio
(b) Horacio Pedro
(c) Juan Carlos
(d) Enrique Antonio

5. At what business does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas in order to drive her to the bus station?
(a) The Walgreens
(b) The K-mart
(c) The ice house
(d) The Cash-N-Carry

6. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?
(a) A wolf
(b) A parrot
(c) A burro
(d) A catfish

7. Where does Cleofilas find Juan Pedro’s whiskers every morning?
(a) In the sink
(b) On the table
(c) On the floor
(d) In the bed

8. What does the laundromat attendant first yell at Cleofilas for, according to the narrator?
(a) Overloading the machines
(b) Putting too much soap in the machines
(c) Hanging her clothes to dry
(d) Leaving the machines unattended

9. How does Cleofilas feel about Felice?
(a) She is frightened of her
(b) She is amazed by her
(c) She disapproves of her
(d) She dislikes her

10. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?
(a) Saturday
(b) Monday
(c) Sunday
(d) Thursday

11. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?
(a) Ecuador
(b) Peru
(c) Argentina
(d) Brazil

12. What item does Cleofilas lament not having in her home with Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) A dishwasher
(b) A washing machine
(c) A television
(d) A radio

13. What Spanish phrase from the story is translated as “on the other side”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(b) Tu o Nadie
(c) No es bueno para la salud
(d) En el otro lado

14. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?
(a) The Rich Also Cry
(b) Days of Our Lives
(c) The Bold and the Beautiful
(d) The Farmer’s Wife

15. In Seguin, Cleofilas feels that “the towns here are built so that you have to depend on” what?
(a) Children
(b) Friends
(c) Animals
(d) Husbands

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says early in the story, “But what Cleofilas has been waiting for, has been whispering and sighing and giggling for, has been anticipating since she was old enough to lean against the window displays of gauze and butterflies and lace, is” what?

2. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?

3. Cleofilas longs to change her name to something that is more what?

4. The name “Dolores” means what in Spanish?

5. What does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?

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