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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Thinking
(b) Loving
(c) Breathing
(d) Praying

2. Because Cleofilas’ first child was turned backwards, she had what performed?
(a) A vasectomy
(b) A hysterectomy
(c) A cesarean section
(d) An abortion

3. Felice says to Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “I guess you’re only famous if you’re” what?
(a) A virgin
(b) A whore
(c) A teacher
(d) A mother

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

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

6. What is the name of Cleofilas’ maid of honor at her wedding?
(a) Lucia
(b) Felice
(c) Chela
(d) Soledad

7. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?
(a) Poetry
(b) Europeans
(c) Jewels
(d) Birds

8. In some variations of the legend of La Llorona, she merges into what mistress of the conqueror Hernan Cortes?
(a) La Viuda
(b) La Malinche
(c) La Llorona
(d) La Consentida

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

10. Felice asks Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “Did you ever notice how nothing around here is named after” what?
(a) A woman
(b) The Bible
(c) A human being
(d) An animal

11. What trees outside of Cleofilas’ home are said to rustle “like ladies in stiff petticoats”?
(a) Peach trees
(b) Pecan trees
(c) Apple trees
(d) Almond trees

12. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?
(a) Ignorant
(b) Clumsy
(c) Whimsical
(d) Frantic

13. How many sons did Dolores lose in the last war?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 7

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

15. Cleofilas is said to have always been talented at what?
(a) Sewing
(b) Pottery
(c) Painting
(d) Writing

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?

2. Corin Tellado published more than how many novels in her lifetime?

3. Cleofilas has doubts about her husband’s fidelity when she finds what arranged in the bathroom a different way?

4. How does Juan Pedro demand that each course of dinner be served?

5. By what term does the narrator refer to the local bar where Juan Pedro drinks?

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