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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Graciela tells her friend on the phone that she would take Cleofilas to the bus station herself, but Cleofilas needs to be gone before what?
(a) The weekend
(b) The sun comes up
(c) The sun goes down
(d) Her husband gets home from work

2. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to the bus station in what city during her phone call?
(a) Seguin
(b) Laredo
(c) Guadalupe
(d) San Antonio

3. Felice says to Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “I guess you’re only famous if you’re” what?
(a) A teacher
(b) A whore
(c) A mother
(d) A virgin

4. Felice tells Cleofilas that she used to have what kind of car?
(a) A Ford Mustang
(b) A Pontiac Sunbird
(c) A Dodge Charger
(d) A Chevrolet Corvette

5. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?
(a) Her family has a rivalry with them
(b) She works for them
(c) She has been adopted by them
(d) She has robbed them

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Cleofilas seen women being struck before her husband began beating her?

2. “You or No One” is a title of what the short story?

3. How many brothers does Cleofilas have in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

4. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?

5. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?

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