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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Juan Pedro feels that if Cleofilas “had any brains in her head she’d realize he’s been up before” what, “earning his living”?
(a) The sheep
(b) The dog
(c) The rooster
(d) The cows

3. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?
(a) Frantic
(b) Clumsy
(c) Ignorant
(d) Whimsical

4. Who is the laundromat attendant whom Cleofilas asks about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Chela
(b) Soledad
(c) Trini
(d) Dolores

5. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?
(a) Poetry
(b) Jewels
(c) Birds
(d) Europeans

6. Corin Tellado was a prolific Spanish writer of what genre?
(a) Historical novels
(b) Science fiction novels
(c) Romance novels
(d) Modernist novels

7. Which character takes over the narration in the third section of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Graciela
(b) Cleofilas
(c) Dolores
(d) Felice

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

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

10. Graciela tells her friend on the telephone that Cleofilas has what all over her body?
(a) Warts
(b) Sores
(c) Hair
(d) Bruises

11. Who does Cleofilas suggests writing to ask for money for the new baby’s expenses?
(a) Juan Pedro’s mother
(b) Her father
(c) Juan Pedro’s father
(d) Her mother

12. What does Juan Pedro do after beating Cleofilas for the first time, and the times after it?
(a) He calls his mother
(b) He weeps
(c) He beats himself
(d) He laughs

13. 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 chores
(d) The bickering

14. In what year did the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo end the Mexican-American war?
(a) 1904
(b) 1875
(c) 1798
(d) 1848

15. Cleofilas imagines that she will wear outfits like what television star once she lives in America?
(a) Elena Anaya
(b) Ivana Baquero
(c) Lucia Mendez
(d) Sara Carbonero

Short Answer Questions

1. When Felice drives across the creek with Cleofilas, she opens her mouth and lets “out a yell as loud as any” what?

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

3. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?

4. How many sons did Dolores lose in the last war?

5. Dolores’ house is said to smell strongly of what in the story?

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