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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. How is Juan Pedro said to laugh, according to the narrator?
(a) Softly
(b) Loudly
(c) Cautiously
(d) Maniacally
2. What phrase from the story is translated from Spanish as “Do you understand?”
(a) La consentida
(b) Mal aire
(c) Entiendes? Pues
(d) Mariachi
3. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?
(a) She works for them
(b) She has been adopted by them
(c) Her family has a rivalry with them
(d) She has robbed them
4. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?
(a) Europeans
(b) Birds
(c) Poetry
(d) Jewels
5. Where was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) San Jose, California
(b) Concord, New Hampshire
(c) Chicago, Illinois
(d) Denver, Colorado
Short Answer Questions
1. What Spanish term from the story refers to a town square?
2. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?
3. 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?
4. What cartoon character is described on the baby blanket that Cleofilas lays by the creek?
5. How is Juan Pedro’s vehicle described in the beginning of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrative style of the story transition with the introduction of Graciela’s character?
2. What is foreshadowed by Don Serafin’s thoughts in the beginning of “Woman Hollering Creek”? How does he express his thoughts?
3. What is the subject of “Woman Hollering Creek”? Into what genre would you categorize the story?
4. What happens when Cleofilas meets Felice in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
5. Where does Cleofilas find and develop strength in order to pursue her escape in the story?
6. How does Cleofilas compare her hometown to that of Seguin, Texas, during the story?
7. How is the myth of La Llorona described historically? What character is La Llorona similar to in the telenovelas described in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
8. How does Cleofilas compare her life to the lives of the heroines of the telenovelas?
9. How is the theme of silence versus sound illustrated in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
10. What symbolic elements in the story represent the borders that alienate Cleofilas?
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