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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. Which character takes over the narration in the third section of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Graciela
(b) Cleofilas
(c) Felice
(d) Dolores

2. What word from the story means “creek” in Spanish?
(a) Telenovelas
(b) Farmacia
(c) Zocalo
(d) Arroyo

3. Cleofilas is said to have always been talented at what?
(a) Pottery
(b) Sewing
(c) Painting
(d) Writing

4. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?
(a) In church
(b) At work
(c) At school
(d) At the library

5. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?
(a) Foreshadowing
(b) Biblical allusion
(c) Assonance
(d) Mixed metaphor

Short Answer Questions

1. When Felice drives across the creek with Cleofilas, she opens her mouth and lets “out a yell as loud as any” what?

2. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that in Seguin there is no “huddled whispering on the church steps each Sunday” because here the whispering begins where at sunset?

3. What Spanish word from the story translates to “pregnant”?

4. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Cleofilas’ relationship with Trini described in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

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

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

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

5. How would you describe the use of “archetypes” and “stereotypes” in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

6. How does the meaning of the creek’s name change to Cleofilas at the end of the story?

7. Where does the character of Dolores live? How is this character and her home described in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

8. Where does Juan Pedro promise to take Cleofilas to obtain her wedding dress? Why does he want to marry quickly?

9. How does the narrator describe the setting where Cleofilas and Juan Pedro live after marrying?

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

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