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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 fingernails
(b) Cuts his hair
(c) Weeps openly
(d) Beats the children

2. The first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas, the narrator describes her lip bleeding like what?
(a) A rose
(b) A sunflower
(c) A cockscomb
(d) An orchid

3. What cartoon character is described on the baby blanket that Cleofilas lays by the creek?
(a) Speedy Gonzales
(b) Mickey Mouse
(c) Donald Duck
(d) Woody Woodpecker

4. What is the full name of Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Juan Pedro Gomez Mendoza
(b) Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez
(c) Juan Pedro Garcia Silva
(d) Juan Pedro Romero Munoz

5. When Felice drives across the creek with Cleofilas, she opens her mouth and lets “out a yell as loud as any” what?
(a) Lobo
(b) Tiburón
(c) Caballo
(d) Mariachi

6. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?
(a) Despair
(b) Devils
(c) Deceit
(d) Demons

7. The narrative of “Woman Hollering Creek” is related primarily from what point of view?
(a) Third person
(b) Fourth person
(c) Second person
(d) First person

8. What is the name of the woman who drowns her children in the legend of “La Llorona”?
(a) Trini
(b) Soledad
(c) Felice
(d) Maria

9. What item does Cleofilas lament not having in her home with Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) A washing machine
(b) A television
(c) A radio
(d) A dishwasher

10. How does Cleofilas feel about Felice?
(a) She is frightened of her
(b) She is amazed by her
(c) She disapproves of her
(d) She dislikes her

11. What does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?
(a) Call the police
(b) Run away
(c) Strike back
(d) Use pepper spray

12. Where does author Sandra Cisneros live?
(a) Laredo, Texas
(b) San Antonio, Texas
(c) Austin, Texas
(d) Seguin, Texas

13. What is Cleofilas’ full name in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Cleofilas Isabella Rodriguez Martinez
(b) Cleofilas Juanita Ortiz Gomez
(c) Cleofilas Chiquita Ramirez Sanchez
(d) Cleofilas Enriqueta DeLeon Hernandez

14. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?
(a) Enrique Antonio
(b) Victor Silvio
(c) Juan Carlos
(d) Horacio Pedro

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what direction does Cleofilas’ father imagine her gazing when she might dream of returning home in the beginning of the story?

2. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?

3. On the nights when Juan Pedro does not come home, Cleofilas is said to lie on “her side of the bed listening to the hollow roar of” what?

4. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?

5. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?

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