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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who will apply the hair rinse that Cleofilas goes to buy early in the story?
(a) Maria
(b) Dolores
(c) Chela
(d) Soledad

3. 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?
(a) The courthouse
(b) The ice house
(c) The grocery store
(d) The riverbank

4. What phrase used in the story translates to “princess”?
(a) Tu o Nadie
(b) La consentida
(c) Que vida
(d) La Llorona

5. On what day of the week does Dolores take flowers to the grave of her husband and sons?
(a) Wednesday
(b) Thursday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Sunday

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

7. Felice says that the name of Woman Hollering Creek makes her want to “holler like” whom?
(a) Tarzan
(b) A banshee
(c) A monkey
(d) Yosemite Sam

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

9. Where does Juan Pedro say he’ll take Cleofilas to buy her wedding dress?
(a) Dallas, Texas
(b) Amarillo, Texas
(c) Laredo, Texas
(d) Houston, Texas

10. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Cuts his fingernails
(b) Beats the children
(c) Cuts his hair
(d) Weeps openly

11. What genre of which Sandra Cisneros is associated, refers to literature written by Mexican Americans in the United States?
(a) Spanish literature
(b) Modernist literature
(c) Absurdist literature
(d) Chicano literature

12. What is Cleofilas’ presumed destination at the end of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Her father’s house
(b) Her husband’s house
(c) Her mother’s house
(d) Her daughter’s house

13. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?
(a) Dirty boy
(b) Gentleman
(c) Old women
(d) Beautiful girl

14. Graciela tells her friend on the phone that she would take Cleofilas to the bus station herself, but Cleofilas needs to be gone before what?
(a) The weekend
(b) Her husband gets home from work
(c) The sun goes down
(d) The sun comes up

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sandra Cisneros born?

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

3. The narrator states early in the story, “To suffer for love is” what?

4. What does the name “Soledad” mean in Spanish?

5. What does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?

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