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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Cuts his hair
(b) Beats the children
(c) Weeps openly
(d) Cuts his fingernails

2. At what business does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas in order to drive her to the bus station?
(a) The K-mart
(b) The Cash-N-Carry
(c) The ice house
(d) The Walgreens

3. What does the name Graciela mean in Spanish?
(a) Grain
(b) Grace
(c) Green
(d) Gecko

4. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the right when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Felice
(b) Maria
(c) Dolores
(d) Trini

5. On what day of the week does Dolores take flowers to the grave of her husband and sons?
(a) Wednesday
(b) Thursday
(c) Sunday
(d) Tuesday

6. Where had Cleofilas seen women being struck before her husband began beating her?
(a) In a brothel
(b) At a train station
(c) On the telenovelas
(d) At the ice house

7. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?
(a) Ignorant
(b) Whimsical
(c) Frantic
(d) Clumsy

8. What does “La Llorona” translate to in English?
(a) The contented one
(b) Insightful woman
(c) Kind person
(d) The Weeping Woman

9. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?
(a) Mi querida
(b) Que vida
(c) Mal aire
(d) La consentida

10. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?
(a) 1308
(b) 1649
(c) 1784
(d) 1521

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

12. What is the name of Cleofilas’ son in the story?
(a) Alejandro Eduardo
(b) Guillermo Clemente
(c) Juan Pedrito
(d) Ricardo Xavier

13. Woman Hollering Creek is known as the creek one passes on their way where, according to the narrator?
(a) Seguin, Texas
(b) San Antonio, Texas
(c) Laredo, Texas
(d) Austin, Texas

14. 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) The Rich Also Cry
(c) The Bold and the Beautiful
(d) Days of Our Lives

15. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?
(a) Tu o Nadie
(b) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe.
(c) No es bueno para la salud
(d) En el otro lado

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the story means “creek” in Spanish?

2. Felice tells Cleofilas that she doesn’t have what?

3. What phrase used in the story translates to “princess”?

4. At what time is Cleofilas’ doctor’s appointment when she goes to see about the health of her second pregnancy?

5. “Woman Hollering Creek” follows what style of plot structure?

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