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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Spanish term does the author use to refer to a rude or indecent person?
(a) Zocalo
(b) Hijole
(c) Grosero
(d) Gritona

2. 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?
(a) Cook food
(b) Listen to the radio
(c) Play cards
(d) Talk and gossip

3. What does Juan Pedro do after beating Cleofilas for the first time, and the times after it?
(a) He laughs
(b) He beats himself
(c) He calls his mother
(d) He weeps

4. What title in the short story refers to a Mexican news–magazine specializing in graphic photographs of accidents and murder victims?
(a) Murmullo
(b) Tartamudeo
(c) Grito
(d) Alarma

5. The heroine of “You or No One” is also said to be in commercials for what product in the story?
(a) Bayer aspirin
(b) Suave shampoo
(c) Lubriderm lotion
(d) Bic razors

6. Who is the laundromat attendant whom Cleofilas asks about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Soledad
(b) Trini
(c) Dolores
(d) Chela

7. What does Graciela say she was performing on Cleofilas when she began crying in her phone call?
(a) A sonogram
(b) A hologram
(c) A cardiogram
(d) A seismogram

8. 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 wind
(b) The thunder
(c) The owls
(d) The interstate

9. What does the name Felice mean?
(a) Flower
(b) Mountain
(c) Insight
(d) Happiness

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

11. 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?
(a) Bitters
(b) Ferments
(c) Sours
(d) Sweetens

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

13. Where does author Sandra Cisneros live?
(a) Laredo, Texas
(b) Austin, Texas
(c) Seguin, Texas
(d) San Antonio, Texas

14. What word from the short story refers to limited–run serial dramatic television shows that are popular in Latin America?
(a) Telenovelas
(b) La Malinche
(c) Mi querida
(d) Farmacia

15. What does the laundromat attendant yell at Cleofilas for after her son is born?
(a) Breast feeding him
(b) Letting him run around naked
(c) Letting him cry constantly
(d) Changing his diapers

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the full name of Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

2. What trees outside of Cleofilas’ home are said to rustle “like ladies in stiff petticoats”?

3. What kind of vehicle is Felice driving when she arrives to meet Cleofilas?

4. In some variations of the legend of La Llorona, she merges into what mistress of the conqueror Hernan Cortes?

5. Cleofilas is said to have always been talented at what?

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