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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo end the Mexican-American war?
(a) 1904
(b) 1848
(c) 1798
(d) 1875

2. The narrator states early in the story, “To suffer for love is” what?
(a) Terrible
(b) Essential
(c) Expected
(d) Good

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

4. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?
(a) 1991
(b) 2002
(c) 1983
(d) 1975

5. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?
(a) 1784
(b) 1649
(c) 1308
(d) 1521

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

7. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Globalization
(b) Political corruption
(c) Victimization
(d) Parental revenge

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

9. What Spanish term does the author use to refer to a rude or indecent person?
(a) Zocalo
(b) Gritona
(c) Hijole
(d) Grosero

10. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?
(a) Sonora
(b) Tabasco
(c) Michoacán
(d) Coahuila

11. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “that life”?
(a) Mala suerte
(b) Que vida
(c) Entiendes? Pues
(d) Tu o Nadie

12. What word from the short story refers to limited–run serial dramatic television shows that are popular in Latin America?
(a) Telenovelas
(b) Mi querida
(c) Farmacia
(d) La Malinche

13. What phrase from the story is translated from Spanish as “Do you understand?”
(a) Entiendes? Pues
(b) Mariachi
(c) La consentida
(d) Mal aire

14. Dolores’ garden is famous for what flowers that must be supported with broom handles and old boards?
(a) Cockscombs
(b) Orchids
(c) Sunflowers
(d) Roses

15. Cleofilas tells her husband that she has a doctor’s appointment on what day of the week and asks him to take her?
(a) Monday
(b) Friday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Wednesday

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?

2. Who will apply the hair rinse that Cleofilas goes to buy early in the story?

3. How does Cleofilas feel about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?

4. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?

5. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?

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