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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cleofilas tells her husband that she has a doctor’s appointment on what day of the week and asks him to take her?
(a) Wednesday
(b) Monday
(c) Friday
(d) Tuesday

2. Of the “truth” that Cleofilas sees the men attempting to find at the bar, the narrator says that it “gurgles in the throat, it rolls across the surface of the tongue, and erupts from the lips” as what?
(a) A belch
(b) A poem
(c) Insults
(d) Insight

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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

10. On the nights when Juan Pedro does not come home, Cleofilas is said to lie on “her side of the bed listening to the hollow roar of” what?
(a) The owls
(b) The thunder
(c) The wind
(d) The interstate

11. Dolores’ garden is famous for what flowers that must be supported with broom handles and old boards?
(a) Orchids
(b) Roses
(c) Sunflowers
(d) Cockscombs

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

13. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?
(a) At work
(b) At the library
(c) In church
(d) At school

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

15. What is the name of the city where Cleofilas was born and raised?
(a) Seguin
(b) Monclova
(c) Laredo
(d) Mexico City

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?

2. Of the men at the bar, the narrator says “If they are lucky, there are” what “at the end of the long night”?

3. What does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?

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

5. What does the narrator describe Cleofilas buying in the center of the town where she grew up in “that will appear in a day and a half as a pimple on her backside”?

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