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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?
(a) A catfish
(b) A wolf
(c) A burro
(d) A parrot

2. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?
(a) The Bold and the Beautiful
(b) Days of Our Lives
(c) The Farmer’s Wife
(d) The Rich Also Cry

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

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

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

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

7. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?
(a) She works for them
(b) She has robbed them
(c) Her family has a rivalry with them
(d) She has been adopted by them

8. What Spanish phrase from the story is translated as “on the other side”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(b) En el otro lado
(c) No es bueno para la salud
(d) Tu o Nadie

9. Who is the heroine of “You or No One”?
(a) Dolores
(b) Graciela
(c) Lucia Mendez
(d) Cleofilas

10. Of Cleofilas, the narrator says, “Sometimes she thinks of her father’s house. But how could she go back there?” She considers that doing so would be what?
(a) Committing suicide
(b) A confession
(c) A disgrace
(d) Returning to a captor

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

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

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

14. Of the men at the bar, the narrator says “If they are lucky, there are” what “at the end of the long night”?
(a) Revelations
(b) Fights
(c) Tears
(d) Hugs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Cleofilas seen women being struck before her husband began beating her?

2. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there are no what for comic relief?

3. What cartoon character is described on the baby blanket that Cleofilas lays by the creek?

4. What Spanish term from the story refers to a town square?

5. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?

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