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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Woman Hollering Creek.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The courthouse
(b) The grocery store
(c) The riverbank
(d) The ice house

2. Felice tells Cleofilas that she doesn’t have what?
(a) A vehicle
(b) A husband
(c) A home
(d) A job

3. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?
(a) A catfish
(b) A parrot
(c) A wolf
(d) A burro

4. What is the name of Cleofilas’ maid of honor at her wedding?
(a) Felice
(b) Soledad
(c) Lucia
(d) Chela

5. What town does Juan Pedro take Cleofilas to live in after they wed?
(a) Dallas, Texas
(b) Seguin, Texas
(c) Laredo, Texas
(d) Austin, Texas

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name Felice mean?

2. Felice tells Cleofilas that she used to have what kind of car?

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

4. What is the name of the woman who drowns her children in the legend of “La Llorona”?

5. What does “La Llorona” translate to in English?

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