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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. 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 smoking gun
(c) A rusty knife
(d) A weathered hatchet

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

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

4. On what day of the week does Dolores take flowers to the grave of her husband and sons?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Wednesday
(c) Sunday
(d) Thursday

5. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine has the ill fortune of falling in love with the beautiful son of what family?
(a) The Ortiz family
(b) The Morales family
(c) The Arrocha family
(d) The Hernandez family

Short Answer Questions

1. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?

2. What does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?

3. Where was Sandra Cisneros born?

4. What is the name of Cleofilas’ father in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

5. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Who is getting married in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek”? How are the cultural details of the event described?

3. What symbolic elements in the story represent the borders that alienate Cleofilas?

4. What conversation do you imagine takes place between Cleofilas and Graciela at the clinic?

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

6. What is the significance of the title of “Woman Hollering Creek”?

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

8. What is demonstrated through the author’s use of foreshadowing in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

9. How does Cleofilas go about convincing Juan Pedro to take her to the doctor? What promises does she make?

10. How is the theme of silence versus sound illustrated in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

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