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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?
(a) Saturday
(b) Sunday
(c) Thursday
(d) Monday

2. What is translated from Spanish as “who knows, beyond the Indians”?
(a) En el otro lado
(b) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(c) Tu o Nadie
(d) No es bueno para la salud

3. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?
(a) Sonora
(b) Michoacán
(c) Tabasco
(d) Coahuila

4. Where does Cleofilas air out her husband’s shoes each evening?
(a) In the laundry room
(b) On the porch
(c) In the bathroom
(d) In the bedroom

5. The cover of a Mexican news–magazine that depicts graphic images of death and mutilation is described by the narrator as having a lover on the cover photographed with what object that “she used to salvage her good name”?
(a) A smoking gun
(b) A weathered hatchet
(c) A bloody fork
(d) A rusty knife

Short Answer Questions

1. What flowers in Dolores’ garden are described as “fringed and bleeding a thick menstrual color”?

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

3. Cleofilas and Juan Pedro plan to get married in what season?

4. What trees outside of Cleofilas’ home are said to rustle “like ladies in stiff petticoats”?

5. On what day of the week does Dolores take flowers to the grave of her husband and sons?

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