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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Cleofilas and Juan Pedro plan to get married in what season?
(a) Summer
(b) Autumn
(c) Winter
(d) Spring
2. In what year did the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo end the Mexican-American war?
(a) 1875
(b) 1904
(c) 1848
(d) 1798
3. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?
(a) Old women
(b) Gentleman
(c) Beautiful girl
(d) Dirty boy
4. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Cuts his hair
(b) Beats the children
(c) Cuts his fingernails
(d) Weeps openly
5. 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 Farmer’s Wife
(b) Days of Our Lives
(c) The Rich Also Cry
(d) The Bold and the Beautiful
6. What genre of which Sandra Cisneros is associated, refers to literature written by Mexican Americans in the United States?
(a) Absurdist literature
(b) Spanish literature
(c) Modernist literature
(d) Chicano literature
7. Felice tells Cleofilas that she doesn’t have what?
(a) A job
(b) A vehicle
(c) A husband
(d) A home
8. “Woman Hollering Creek” follows what style of plot structure?
(a) Gothic
(b) Episodic
(c) Epic
(d) Linear
9. Corin Tellado published more than how many novels in her lifetime?
(a) 750
(b) 2,250
(c) 1,200
(d) 4,000
10. What word from the short story refers to limited–run serial dramatic television shows that are popular in Latin America?
(a) La Malinche
(b) Mi querida
(c) Telenovelas
(d) Farmacia
11. Dolores’ garden is famous for what flowers that must be supported with broom handles and old boards?
(a) Roses
(b) Sunflowers
(c) Cockscombs
(d) Orchids
12. Where does Juan Pedro say he’ll take Cleofilas to buy her wedding dress?
(a) Houston, Texas
(b) Amarillo, Texas
(c) Dallas, Texas
(d) Laredo, Texas
13. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?
(a) Dogs
(b) Fish
(c) Monkeys
(d) Cats
14. Felice says to Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “I guess you’re only famous if you’re” what?
(a) A mother
(b) A virgin
(c) A whore
(d) A teacher
15. At what business does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas in order to drive her to the bus station?
(a) The Cash-N-Carry
(b) The ice house
(c) The Walgreens
(d) The K-mart
Short Answer Questions
1. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?
2. Graciela tells her friend on the phone that she would take Cleofilas to the bus station herself, but Cleofilas needs to be gone before what?
3. Juan Pedro throws a book across the room and leaves a hot welt where on Cleofilas?
4. What Spanish term from the story refers to a town square?
5. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?
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