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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?
(a) His son
(b) His wife
(c) His mother
(d) His brother
2. The cover of a Mexican news–magazine that depicts graphic images of death and mutilation is described by the narrator as having a lover on the cover photographed with what object that “she used to salvage her good name”?
(a) A bloody fork
(b) A rusty knife
(c) A smoking gun
(d) A weathered hatchet
3. What word from the story refers to a dead body?
(a) Comrade
(b) Cadaver
(c) Extant
(d) Impresario
4. “You or No One” is a title of what the short story?
(a) A stage play
(b) A telenovela
(c) A folk song
(d) A Bollywood film
5. What Spanish word in the story refers to the store where Cleofilas goes to buy a hair rinse?
(a) Palacio
(b) Cocina
(c) Baño
(d) Farmacia
6. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?
(a) Reading a book
(b) Sewing
(c) Cooking dinner
(d) Washing dishes
7. Which of Cleofilas’ neighbors considers herself a widow but never mentions her husband?
(a) Chela
(b) Felice
(c) Soledad
(d) Dolores
8. The narrator says early in the story, “But what Cleofilas has been waiting for, has been whispering and sighing and giggling for, has been anticipating since she was old enough to lean against the window displays of gauze and butterflies and lace, is” what?
(a) Purpose
(b) Prominence
(c) Peace
(d) Passion
9. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?
(a) She has been adopted by them
(b) Her family has a rivalry with them
(c) She works for them
(d) She has robbed them
10. Where was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) San Jose, California
(b) Concord, New Hampshire
(c) Denver, Colorado
(d) Chicago, Illinois
11. When was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) 1946
(b) 1941
(c) 1954
(d) 1935
12. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?
(a) Sunday
(b) Monday
(c) Thursday
(d) Saturday
13. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the left when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Chela
(b) Soledad
(c) Graciela
(d) Lucia
14. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe.
(b) Tu o Nadie
(c) En el otro lado
(d) No es bueno para la salud
15. What phrase used in the story translates to “princess”?
(a) Que vida
(b) Tu o Nadie
(c) La Llorona
(d) La consentida
Short Answer Questions
1. Felice says to Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “I guess you’re only famous if you’re” what?
2. Cleofilas considers that her husband and the other men at the bar are “nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like” what?
3. Juan Pedro feels that if Cleofilas “had any brains in her head she’d realize he’s been up before” what, “earning his living”?
4. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?
5. Juan Pedro throws a book across the room and leaves a hot welt where on Cleofilas?
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