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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?
(a) No es bueno para la salud
(b) Mi querida
(c) En el otro lado
(d) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe

2. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that the houses are what?
(a) Closer together in Seguin
(b) Further apart in Seguin
(c) More ornate in Seguin
(d) Dingier in Seguin

3. What Spanish term from the story refers to a town square?
(a) Grosero
(b) Farmacia
(c) Arroyo
(d) Zocalo

4. Graciela’s friend agrees to meet Cleofilas at a business by what interstate in order to take her to the bus station?
(a) I-35
(b) I-70
(c) I-5
(d) I-10

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Cleofilas sits by the creek with her son in the beginning of the story, she thinks “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that love” does what?

3. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?

4. The narrative of “Woman Hollering Creek” is related primarily from what point of view?

5. Who does Graciela make a phone call to in the third section of the story?

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