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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?
(a) Ecuador
(b) Brazil
(c) Argentina
(d) Peru
2. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?
(a) Cooking dinner
(b) Washing dishes
(c) Reading a book
(d) Sewing
3. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?
(a) Ignorant
(b) Frantic
(c) Clumsy
(d) Whimsical
4. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Beats the children
(b) Cuts his hair
(c) Weeps openly
(d) Cuts his fingernails
5. What does “La Llorona” translate to in English?
(a) The contented one
(b) Kind person
(c) The Weeping Woman
(d) Insightful woman
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the name Graciela mean in Spanish?
2. Who will apply the hair rinse that Cleofilas goes to buy early in the story?
3. What Spanish word in the story refers to the store where Cleofilas goes to buy a hair rinse?
4. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?
5. How does Cleofilas feel about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Cleofilas compare Juan Pedro to the male stars of the telenovelas?
2. How do the characters of Felice and Graciela help Cleofilas on her personal journey in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
3. What is foreshadowed by Don Serafin’s thoughts in the beginning of “Woman Hollering Creek”? How does he express his thoughts?
4. How would you describe the use of “archetypes” and “stereotypes” in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
5. What is Cleofilas’ reply when Juan Pedro asks her why she is anxious about seeing the doctor?
6. How does Cleofilas compare romantic love to the love between parent and child?
7. How is Cleofilas’ laughter described at the end of the story? What does the laughter symbolize?
8. How does the narrative transition when describing Cleofilas’ courtship with Juan Pedro? What expectations does Cleofilas illustrate here?
9. What does La Llorona represent symbolically and thematically in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
10. How does Cleofilas compare her life to the lives of the heroines of the telenovelas?
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