Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the Spanish word “pues” translate to in English?
(a) Make
(b) Lift
(c) Well
(d) Accept
2. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?
(a) Birds
(b) Jewels
(c) Europeans
(d) Poetry
3. Graciela’s friend agrees to meet Cleofilas at a business by what interstate in order to take her to the bus station?
(a) I-5
(b) I-10
(c) I-70
(d) I-35
4. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the right when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Maria
(b) Dolores
(c) Felice
(d) Trini
5. When was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) 1941
(b) 1935
(c) 1946
(d) 1954
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?
2. What Spanish word from the story translates to “pregnant”?
3. What is translated from Spanish as “who knows, beyond the Indians”?
4. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro is not very tall and doesn’t look like the men on what?
5. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is demonstrated through the author’s use of foreshadowing in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
2. How does the narrative style of the story transition with the introduction of Graciela’s character?
3. What does Cleofilas consider about her name in comparison with the characters from the telenovelas?
4. Who is getting married in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek”? How are the cultural details of the event described?
5. How does the meaning of the creek’s name change to Cleofilas at the end of the story?
6. What is Cleofilas’ “fatal flaw” in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
7. How is Cleofilas’ laughter described at the end of the story? What does the laughter symbolize?
8. How is the character of Soledad described in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
9. How is the first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas described in the narrative? How does Cleofilas react?
10. What is the subject of “Woman Hollering Creek”? Into what genre would you categorize the story?
|
This section contains 801 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
