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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 is not very tall and doesn’t look like the men on what?
(a) The nightly news
(b) The magazines
(c) The telenovelas
(d) The newspapers

2. What phrase from the story is translated from Spanish as “Do you understand?”
(a) Mariachi
(b) Entiendes? Pues
(c) Mal aire
(d) La consentida

3. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?
(a) 2002
(b) 1983
(c) 1975
(d) 1991

4. How does Cleofilas feel about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Uninterested
(b) Offended
(c) Fascinated
(d) Terrified

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?

2. What is the name of Cleofilas’ maid of honor at her wedding?

3. What does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?

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

5. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?

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