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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cleofilas is looking for her maid of honor to fulfill what conspiracy in the opening of the story?
(a) Their marriage conspiracy
(b) Their bouquet conspiracy
(c) Their childhood dream conspiracy
(d) Their hopeful conspiracy

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

3. In Seguin, Cleofilas feels that “the towns here are built so that you have to depend on” what?
(a) Husbands
(b) Children
(c) Animals
(d) Friends

4. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?
(a) 1983
(b) 1975
(c) 2002
(d) 1991

5. To whose house does Cleofilas slip away occasionally to watch telenovelas?
(a) Don Serafin’s
(b) Lucia Mendez’s
(c) Graciela’s
(d) Soledad’s

6. How many brothers did Sandra Cisneros grow up with?
(a) 9
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 2

7. Who will apply the hair rinse that Cleofilas goes to buy early in the story?
(a) Soledad
(b) Maria
(c) Dolores
(d) Chela

8. How does Juan Pedro demand that each course of dinner be served?
(a) With a new fork
(b) With a piece of fruit
(c) On a separate plate
(d) With fresh napkins

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

10. Cleofilas makes the discovery in “Woman Hollering Creek” that the only love that endures is what?
(a) The love between parent and child
(b) The love between boy and girl
(c) The love between a person and themselves
(d) The love between God and man

11. Dolores’ house is said to smell strongly of what in the story?
(a) Beer and cigarettes
(b) Diapers
(c) Incense and candles
(d) Cats

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

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

14. Cleofilas imagines that she will wear outfits like what television star once she lives in America?
(a) Ivana Baquero
(b) Elena Anaya
(c) Lucia Mendez
(d) Sara Carbonero

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas has doubts about her husband’s fidelity when she finds what arranged in the bathroom a different way?

2. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that in Seguin there is no “huddled whispering on the church steps each Sunday” because here the whispering begins where at sunset?

3. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the left when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?

4. What does Cleofilas’ father say to her “in the hubbub of parting” in the beginning of the story?

5. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro is not very tall and doesn’t look like the men on what?

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