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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?
(a) Sunday
(b) Monday
(c) Saturday
(d) Thursday

2. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?
(a) The drought
(b) The roads
(c) The bickering
(d) The chores

3. Cleofilas is said to have always been talented at what?
(a) Sewing
(b) Writing
(c) Painting
(d) Pottery

4. Regarding Cleofilas’ feelings for Juan Pedro, the narrator states, “She has to remind herself why she loves him when she changes” what?
(a) The bed sheets
(b) The baby’s Pampers
(c) Her clothes
(d) Her daily routine

5. In some variations of the legend of La Llorona, she merges into what mistress of the conqueror Hernan Cortes?
(a) La Consentida
(b) La Malinche
(c) La Llorona
(d) La Viuda

6. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?
(a) His mother
(b) His son
(c) His brother
(d) His wife

7. In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?
(a) 1821
(b) 1805
(c) 1776
(d) 1844

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

9. By what term does the narrator refer to the local bar where Juan Pedro drinks?
(a) The palace of suds
(b) The chugging pit
(c) The intoxication station
(d) The ice house

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

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

12. Cleofilas has doubts about her husband’s fidelity when she finds what arranged in the bathroom a different way?
(a) Her toothbrush
(b) Her makeup and hairbrush
(c) Her nail clippers and file
(d) Her medicine

13. Felice tells Cleofilas that she used to have what kind of car?
(a) A Dodge Charger
(b) A Pontiac Sunbird
(c) A Chevrolet Corvette
(d) A Ford Mustang

14. The creek that runs behind Cleofilas’ house in America is called what in Spanish?
(a) Mi querida
(b) Mala suerte
(c) La Gritona
(d) Que vida

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is translated from Spanish as “who knows, beyond the Indians”?

2. The name “Dolores” means what in Spanish?

3. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?

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

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

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