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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cleofilas believes that Juan Pedro has “a very important position” at a company that makes what?
(a) Beer
(b) Computers
(c) Diapers
(d) Tequila

2. What is Juan Pedro described as kicking when he says “he hates this shitty house and is going out”?
(a) The television
(b) The refrigerator
(c) The cabinets
(d) The oven

3. What does the name Felice mean?
(a) Flower
(b) Insight
(c) Happiness
(d) Mountain

4. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Globalization
(b) Parental revenge
(c) Political corruption
(d) Victimization

5. What town does Juan Pedro take Cleofilas to live in after they wed?
(a) Austin, Texas
(b) Laredo, Texas
(c) Seguin, Texas
(d) Dallas, Texas

6. Who does the truck belong to that Felice picks Cleofilas up in?
(a) Soledad
(b) Felice
(c) Maria
(d) Graciela

7. What does the name “Soledad” mean in Spanish?
(a) Happiness
(b) Regret
(c) Loneliness
(d) Wonder

8. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?
(a) Wealth
(b) Love
(c) Knowledge
(d) Children

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

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

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

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

13. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?
(a) Ecuador
(b) Brazil
(c) Peru
(d) Argentina

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

15. It is pointed out in “Woman Hollering Creek” that Cleofilas does not speak what language?
(a) Spanish
(b) English
(c) Italian
(d) Mandarin

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Juan Pedro demand that each course of dinner be served?

2. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?

3. The narrator says early in the story, “But what Cleofilas has been waiting for, has been whispering and sighing and giggling for, has been anticipating since she was old enough to lean against the window displays of gauze and butterflies and lace, is” what?

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

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

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