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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro’s face is still scarred from what?
(a) Acne
(b) The sun
(c) Knife fights
(d) War

2. In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?
(a) 1844
(b) 1805
(c) 1776
(d) 1821

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

4. What word from the story means causing a shudder or feeling of horror?
(a) Appalling
(b) Grisly
(c) Ironic
(d) Revelation

5. Cleofilas tells her husband that she has a doctor’s appointment on what day of the week and asks him to take her?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Monday
(c) Friday
(d) Wednesday

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas makes the discovery in “Woman Hollering Creek” that the only love that endures is what?

2. How does Juan Pedro demand that each course of dinner be served?

3. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?

4. In what year did the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo end the Mexican-American war?

5. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?

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