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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?
(a) Newspapers
(b) Thread
(c) Her hair
(d) Napkins

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

3. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?
(a) Monday
(b) Thursday
(c) Saturday
(d) Sunday

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

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

6. 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) Insight
(b) A belch
(c) Insults
(d) A poem

7. The name “Dolores” means what in Spanish?
(a) Honest
(b) Beautiful
(c) Sorrow
(d) Intelligent

8. The narrative of “Woman Hollering Creek” is related primarily from what point of view?
(a) Fourth person
(b) First person
(c) Third person
(d) Second person

9. How is Juan Pedro said to laugh, according to the narrator?
(a) Maniacally
(b) Softly
(c) Cautiously
(d) Loudly

10. How is Juan Pedro’s vehicle described in the beginning of the story?
(a) An old sedan
(b) A new convertible
(c) A new pickup
(d) An old semi

11. The first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas, the narrator describes her lip bleeding like what?
(a) A rose
(b) An orchid
(c) A sunflower
(d) A cockscomb

12. What does the laundromat attendant first yell at Cleofilas for, according to the narrator?
(a) Hanging her clothes to dry
(b) Leaving the machines unattended
(c) Overloading the machines
(d) Putting too much soap in the machines

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

14. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro is not very tall and doesn’t look like the men on what?
(a) The magazines
(b) The telenovelas
(c) The newspapers
(d) The nightly news

15. What flowers in Dolores’ garden have a sad scent that “reminded Cleofilas of the dead”?
(a) Cockscombs
(b) Roses
(c) Orchids
(d) Sunflowers

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the baby do as he pulls up fistfuls of grass by the creek?

2. When was the Spanish author Corin Tellado born?

3. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?

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

5. Regarding Cleofilas’ feelings for Juan Pedro, the narrator states, “She has to remind herself why she loves him when she changes” what?

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