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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. Who is the heroine of “You or No One”?
(a) Cleofilas
(b) Lucia Mendez
(c) Dolores
(d) Graciela

2. Which of Cleofilas’ neighbors considers herself a widow but never mentions her husband?
(a) Soledad
(b) Chela
(c) Felice
(d) Dolores

3. 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 weathered hatchet
(b) A bloody fork
(c) A smoking gun
(d) A rusty knife

4. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?
(a) Days of Our Lives
(b) The Rich Also Cry
(c) The Bold and the Beautiful
(d) The Farmer’s Wife

5. At what time is Cleofilas’ doctor’s appointment when she goes to see about the health of her second pregnancy?
(a) 3:30
(b) 2:00
(c) 5:30
(d) 4:00

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. 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?

3. In the town where Cleofilas grew up, the narrator says “there isn’t very much to do except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one or the other to” do what?

4. 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?

5. What does the Spanish word “pues” translate to in English?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Juan Pedro behave toward Cleofilas after he has beaten her for the first time? What is Cleofilas’ response?

2. What is significant about the names “Felice,” “Graciela,” and “Cleofilas” in the story? What meanings do these names have?

3. What is Cleofilas’ reply when Juan Pedro asks her why she is anxious about seeing the doctor?

4. What arrangements do Graciela and Felice make over the phone in the story? What urgency is illustrated in their plan?

5. What principle objective of Cleofilas’ is seen in the flashback at the beginning of the story? How does this objective tie into the plot of You or No One?

6. How are the roles of women defined by the society in which Cleofilas lives in the story?

7. What kind of support does Soledad offer to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

8. How does Cleofilas compare her hometown to that of Seguin, Texas, during the story?

9. How is Cleofilas’ hometown described early in the story? How does Cleofilas spend her time there?

10. What is foreshadowed by Don Serafin’s thoughts in the beginning of “Woman Hollering Creek”? How does he express his thoughts?

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