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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(b) Mi querida
(c) En el otro lado
(d) No es bueno para la salud

2. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?
(a) Europeans
(b) Poetry
(c) Jewels
(d) Birds

3. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?
(a) Love
(b) Wealth
(c) Knowledge
(d) Children

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

5. What is Juan Pedro described as kicking when he says “he hates this shitty house and is going out”?
(a) The oven
(b) The refrigerator
(c) The television
(d) The cabinets

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

7. What trees outside of Cleofilas’ home are said to rustle “like ladies in stiff petticoats”?
(a) Apple trees
(b) Peach trees
(c) Pecan trees
(d) Almond trees

8. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?
(a) Her family has a rivalry with them
(b) She works for them
(c) She has been adopted by them
(d) She has robbed them

9. 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) Fish
(d) Dogs

10. Who does the truck belong to that Felice picks Cleofilas up in?
(a) Maria
(b) Felice
(c) Graciela
(d) Soledad

11. Cleofilas and Juan Pedro plan to get married in what season?
(a) Spring
(b) Autumn
(c) Summer
(d) Winter

12. Corin Tellado was a prolific Spanish writer of what genre?
(a) Historical novels
(b) Science fiction novels
(c) Modernist novels
(d) Romance novels

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

14. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?
(a) Reading a book
(b) Sewing
(c) Cooking dinner
(d) Washing dishes

15. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?
(a) Chela
(b) Trini
(c) Felice
(d) Soledad

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sandra Cisneros born?

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

3. Describing Seguin, Texas, the narrator states “This town with its silly pride for” what “the size of a baby carriage in front of the city hall”?

4. The narrator states early in the story, “To suffer for love is” what?

5. What is the name of Cleofilas’ son in the story?

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