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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) 1954
(b) 1941
(c) 1935
(d) 1946

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

3. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?
(a) Dogs
(b) Cats
(c) Monkeys
(d) Fish

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

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

6. What word from the story means causing a shudder or feeling of horror?
(a) Grisly
(b) Revelation
(c) Appalling
(d) Ironic

7. How does Cleofilas feel about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Offended
(b) Uninterested
(c) Terrified
(d) Fascinated

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

9. 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

10. What title in the short story refers to a Mexican news–magazine specializing in graphic photographs of accidents and murder victims?
(a) Tartamudeo
(b) Murmullo
(c) Alarma
(d) Grito

11. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro has a bit of a belly from what?
(a) The wine he drinks
(b) Eating too much meat
(c) Eating sweets
(d) The beer he drinks

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

13. What is translated from Spanish as “who knows, beyond the Indians”?
(a) Tu o Nadie
(b) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(c) En el otro lado
(d) No es bueno para la salud

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Woman Hollering Creek is known as the creek one passes on their way where, according to the narrator?

3. What is Cleofilas’ presumed destination at the end of “Woman Hollering Creek”?

4. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?

5. What genre of which Sandra Cisneros is associated, refers to literature written by Mexican Americans in the United States?

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