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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’ maid of honor at her wedding?
(a) Soledad
(b) Lucia
(c) Chela
(d) Felice

2. In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?
(a) 1805
(b) 1776
(c) 1821
(d) 1844

3. How does Juan Pedro demand that each course of dinner be served?
(a) With fresh napkins
(b) With a new fork
(c) With a piece of fruit
(d) On a separate plate

4. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Victimization
(b) Parental revenge
(c) Political corruption
(d) Globalization

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

6. Who will apply the hair rinse that Cleofilas goes to buy early in the story?
(a) Maria
(b) Dolores
(c) Soledad
(d) Chela

7. “You or No One” is a title of what the short story?
(a) A folk song
(b) A stage play
(c) A Bollywood film
(d) A telenovela

8. The name “Dolores” means what in Spanish?
(a) Beautiful
(b) Honest
(c) Intelligent
(d) Sorrow

9. Who does Cleofilas suggests writing to ask for money for the new baby’s expenses?
(a) Her father
(b) Her mother
(c) Juan Pedro’s father
(d) Juan Pedro’s mother

10. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?
(a) The chores
(b) The roads
(c) The drought
(d) The bickering

11. 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?
(a) The interstate
(b) The thunder
(c) The owls
(d) The wind

12. To whose house does Cleofilas slip away occasionally to watch telenovelas?
(a) Soledad’s
(b) Lucia Mendez’s
(c) Graciela’s
(d) Don Serafin’s

13. Of Woman Hollering Creek, the narrator says that “no one could say whether the woman had hollered from anger or” what?
(a) Confusion
(b) Pity
(c) Sadness
(d) Pain

14. What does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?
(a) Newspapers
(b) Her hair
(c) Napkins
(d) Thread

15. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?
(a) Que vida
(b) La consentida
(c) Mal aire
(d) Mi querida

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name “Soledad” mean in Spanish?

2. Where does Cleofilas find Juan Pedro’s whiskers every morning?

3. It is pointed out in “Woman Hollering Creek” that Cleofilas does not speak what language?

4. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro has a bit of a belly from what?

5. Felice tells Cleofilas that she used to have what kind of car?

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