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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?
(a) The Corpus Station
(b) The Greyhound Station
(c) The Arroyo Station
(d) The Amtrak Station

2. Dolores’ house is said to smell strongly of what in the story?
(a) Incense and candles
(b) Beer and cigarettes
(c) Cats
(d) Diapers

3. What does the baby do as he pulls up fistfuls of grass by the creek?
(a) He screams
(b) He sings
(c) He weeps
(d) He laughs

4. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro’s face is still scarred from what?
(a) War
(b) The sun
(c) Acne
(d) Knife fights

5. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “bad air”?
(a) Mala suerte
(b) Mal aire
(c) Mi querida
(d) Mariachi

6. What is the name of Cleofilas’ son in the story?
(a) Juan Pedrito
(b) Ricardo Xavier
(c) Alejandro Eduardo
(d) Guillermo Clemente

7. Juan Pedro throws a book across the room and leaves a hot welt where on Cleofilas?
(a) Her cheek
(b) Her neck
(c) Her ear
(d) Her forehead

8. What word from the story refers to a dead body?
(a) Extant
(b) Comrade
(c) Impresario
(d) Cadaver

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

10. What item does Cleofilas lament not having in her home with Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) A dishwasher
(b) A radio
(c) A television
(d) A washing machine

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

12. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?
(a) No es bueno para la salud
(b) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe.
(c) En el otro lado
(d) Tu o Nadie

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

14. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there are no what for comic relief?
(a) Commercials
(b) Illegitimate affairs
(c) Funny romances
(d) Clown characters

15. 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 bickering
(c) The roads
(d) The chores

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the right when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?

2. What Spanish word from the story translates to “pregnant”?

3. At what business does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas in order to drive her to the bus station?

4. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that in Seguin there is no “huddled whispering on the church steps each Sunday” because here the whispering begins where at sunset?

5. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

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