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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?
(a) Victor Silvio
(b) Juan Carlos
(c) Horacio Pedro
(d) Enrique Antonio

2. The heroine of “You or No One” is also said to be in commercials for what product in the story?
(a) Bayer aspirin
(b) Lubriderm lotion
(c) Bic razors
(d) Suave shampoo

3. Who does Graciela make a phone call to in the third section of the story?
(a) Dolores
(b) Soledad
(c) Felice
(d) Maria

4. The character of Felice represents what to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Inadequacy
(b) Abuse
(c) Independence
(d) Adultery

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

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

7. What word from the story means “creek” in Spanish?
(a) Zocalo
(b) Telenovelas
(c) Arroyo
(d) Farmacia

8. The heroine of “You or No One” is said to have endured “all kinds of hardships of the heart, separation and betrayal,” but she keeps doing what “because that is the most important thing”?
(a) Praying
(b) Breathing
(c) Loving
(d) Thinking

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

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

11. Where had Cleofilas seen women being struck before her husband began beating her?
(a) In a brothel
(b) On the telenovelas
(c) At a train station
(d) At the ice house

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

13. What does Cleofilas sip “until it grows warm” when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?
(a) Gin and tonic
(b) A glass of whiskey
(c) A beer
(d) A margarita

14. Cleofilas longs to change her name to something that is more what?
(a) Poetic
(b) Direct
(c) Mystical
(d) Classical

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas believes that Juan Pedro has “a very important position” at a company that makes what?

2. Felice says that the name of Woman Hollering Creek makes her want to “holler like” whom?

3. Felice tells Cleofilas that she doesn’t have what?

4. At what time does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas to take her to the bus station?

5. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “bad air”?

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