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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) Brazil
(b) Peru
(c) Ecuador
(d) Argentina
2. What word from the story refers to a dead body?
(a) Impresario
(b) Cadaver
(c) Extant
(d) Comrade
3. Where had Cleofilas seen women being struck before her husband began beating her?
(a) In a brothel
(b) At a train station
(c) On the telenovelas
(d) At the ice house
4. Describing Cleofilas’ name, Graciela suggests she is named after what?
(a) A grandmother
(b) A wildflower
(c) A Queen of Spain
(d) A Mexican saint
5. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?
(a) Tu o Nadie
(b) No es bueno para la salud
(c) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe.
(d) En el otro lado
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year did the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo end the Mexican-American war?
2. What does the name Felice mean?
3. What is the name of the city where Cleofilas was born and raised?
4. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?
5. In Seguin, Cleofilas feels that “the towns here are built so that you have to depend on” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Cleofilas’ hometown described early in the story? How does Cleofilas spend her time there?
2. What is the subject of “Woman Hollering Creek”? Into what genre would you categorize the story?
3. Why does Cleofilas plead with Juan Pedro to take her to the doctor in the story?
4. How does Cleofilas compare her hometown to that of Seguin, Texas, during the story?
5. What is demonstrated through the author’s use of foreshadowing in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
6. What is Cleofilas’ reply when Juan Pedro asks her why she is anxious about seeing the doctor?
7. How is the incident when Juan Pedro throws a book at Cleofilas described? What is Cleofilas’ reaction to this event?
8. How does Cleofilas compare romantic love to the love between parent and child?
9. What is the turning point for Cleofilas and her perceptions of identity in the story?
10. How does the society presented in the story reinforce the behavior of Juan Pedro?
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