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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Juan Pedro feels that if Cleofilas “had any brains in her head she’d realize he’s been up before” what, “earning his living”?
(a) The cows
(b) The dog
(c) The rooster
(d) The sheep

2. Of the “truth” that Cleofilas sees the men attempting to find at the bar, the narrator says that it “gurgles in the throat, it rolls across the surface of the tongue, and erupts from the lips” as what?
(a) Insults
(b) A poem
(c) A belch
(d) Insight

3. What Spanish phrase from the story is translated as “on the other side”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(b) No es bueno para la salud
(c) Tu o Nadie
(d) En el otro lado

4. The first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas, the narrator describes her lip bleeding like what?
(a) An orchid
(b) A sunflower
(c) A rose
(d) A cockscomb

5. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?
(a) Children
(b) Love
(c) Knowledge
(d) Wealth

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?

2. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine has the ill fortune of falling in love with the beautiful son of what family?

3. Cleofilas is looking for her maid of honor to fulfill what conspiracy in the opening of the story?

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

5. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?

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