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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states early in the story, “To suffer for love is” what?
(a) Essential
(b) Expected
(c) Good
(d) Terrible

2. Graciela tells her friend on the phone that she would take Cleofilas to the bus station herself, but Cleofilas needs to be gone before what?
(a) The sun goes down
(b) Her husband gets home from work
(c) The weekend
(d) The sun comes up

3. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?
(a) Sonora
(b) Coahuila
(c) Tabasco
(d) Michoacán

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

5. How many sons did Dolores lose in the last war?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 7

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

7. 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”?
(a) A petrified log
(b) An anchor
(c) A bronze pecan
(d) A quartz crystal

8. What Spanish phrase from the story is translated as “on the other side”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(b) No es bueno para la salud
(c) Tu o Nadie
(d) En el otro lado

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

10. What is Cleofilas’ presumed destination at the end of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Her daughter’s house
(b) Her husband’s house
(c) Her father’s house
(d) Her mother’s house

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

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

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

14. What is the name of Cleofilas’ father in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Don Serafin
(b) Juan Pedro
(c) Juan Carlos
(d) Victor Diaz

15. 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 school
(b) At work
(c) In church
(d) At the library

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?

2. What word from the story means causing a shudder or feeling of horror?

3. Where does Cleofilas put her bags when she meets Felice at the end of the story?

4. How many brothers did Sandra Cisneros grow up with?

5. Felice says that the name of Woman Hollering Creek makes her want to “holler like” whom?

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