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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?
(a) At the library
(b) At school
(c) At work
(d) In church

2. Describing Cleofilas’ name, Graciela suggests she is named after what?
(a) A Mexican saint
(b) A grandmother
(c) A wildflower
(d) A Queen of Spain

3. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?
(a) Biblical allusion
(b) Foreshadowing
(c) Mixed metaphor
(d) Assonance

4. Dolores’ garden is famous for what flowers that must be supported with broom handles and old boards?
(a) Cockscombs
(b) Sunflowers
(c) Orchids
(d) Roses

5. What town does Juan Pedro take Cleofilas to live in after they wed?
(a) Dallas, Texas
(b) Laredo, Texas
(c) Seguin, Texas
(d) Austin, Texas

6. What Spanish word from the story translates to “pregnant”?
(a) Hijole
(b) Gritona
(c) Consentida
(d) Viejas

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. What Spanish term from the story refers to a town square?
(a) Arroyo
(b) Zocalo
(c) Grosero
(d) Farmacia

9. Cleofilas has doubts about her husband’s fidelity when she finds what arranged in the bathroom a different way?
(a) Her makeup and hairbrush
(b) Her medicine
(c) Her toothbrush
(d) Her nail clippers and file

10. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?
(a) Cats
(b) Monkeys
(c) Dogs
(d) Fish

11. Which character takes over the narration in the third section of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Felice
(b) Dolores
(c) Cleofilas
(d) Graciela

12. The heroine of “You or No One” is said to have endured “all kinds of hardships of the heart, separation and betrayal,” but she keeps doing what “because that is the most important thing”?
(a) Loving
(b) Breathing
(c) Praying
(d) Thinking

13. How is Juan Pedro said to laugh, according to the narrator?
(a) Loudly
(b) Maniacally
(c) Softly
(d) Cautiously

14. Of the men at the bar, the narrator says “If they are lucky, there are” what “at the end of the long night”?
(a) Revelations
(b) Hugs
(c) Fights
(d) Tears

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?

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

3. Who does Graciela make a phone call to in the third section of the story?

4. What does the Spanish word “pues” translate to in English?

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

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