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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the name “Soledad” mean in Spanish?
(a) Loneliness
(b) Regret
(c) Happiness
(d) Wonder
2. Which character takes over the narration in the third section of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Dolores
(b) Graciela
(c) Felice
(d) Cleofilas
3. What is the name of Cleofilas’ son in the story?
(a) Alejandro Eduardo
(b) Guillermo Clemente
(c) Ricardo Xavier
(d) Juan Pedrito
4. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?
(a) Biblical allusion
(b) Assonance
(c) Foreshadowing
(d) Mixed metaphor
5. What title in the short story refers to a Mexican news–magazine specializing in graphic photographs of accidents and murder victims?
(a) Murmullo
(b) Alarma
(c) Tartamudeo
(d) Grito
6. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?
(a) His wife
(b) His son
(c) His mother
(d) His brother
7. What is the name of the woman who drowns her children in the legend of “La Llorona”?
(a) Felice
(b) Maria
(c) Trini
(d) Soledad
8. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?
(a) Old women
(b) Dirty boy
(c) Beautiful girl
(d) Gentleman
9. Who is the heroine of “You or No One”?
(a) Dolores
(b) Cleofilas
(c) Lucia Mendez
(d) Graciela
10. Cleofilas imagines that she will wear outfits like what television star once she lives in America?
(a) Ivana Baquero
(b) Lucia Mendez
(c) Sara Carbonero
(d) Elena Anaya
11. Woman Hollering Creek is known as the creek one passes on their way where, according to the narrator?
(a) San Antonio, Texas
(b) Austin, Texas
(c) Seguin, Texas
(d) Laredo, Texas
12. What Spanish term from the story refers to a town square?
(a) Grosero
(b) Farmacia
(c) Arroyo
(d) Zocalo
13. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?
(a) Devils
(b) Demons
(c) Despair
(d) Deceit
14. What does the name Felice mean?
(a) Insight
(b) Flower
(c) Happiness
(d) Mountain
15. Cleofilas longs to change her name to something that is more what?
(a) Poetic
(b) Mystical
(c) Direct
(d) Classical
Short Answer Questions
1. At what time does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas to take her to the bus station?
2. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the left when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?
3. To whose house does Cleofilas slip away occasionally to watch telenovelas?
4. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?
5. As Cleofilas sits by the creek with her son in the beginning of the story, she thinks “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that love” does what?
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