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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The character of Felice represents what to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Inadequacy
(b) Independence
(c) Adultery
(d) Abuse

2. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the right when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Trini
(b) Dolores
(c) Felice
(d) Maria

3. To whose house does Cleofilas slip away occasionally to watch telenovelas?
(a) Graciela’s
(b) Don Serafin’s
(c) Lucia Mendez’s
(d) Soledad’s

4. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?
(a) Her family has a rivalry with them
(b) She has robbed them
(c) She works for them
(d) She has been adopted by them

5. What title in the short story refers to a Mexican news–magazine specializing in graphic photographs of accidents and murder victims?
(a) Alarma
(b) Tartamudeo
(c) Grito
(d) Murmullo

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cleofilas find Juan Pedro’s whiskers every morning?

2. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that in Seguin there is no “huddled whispering on the church steps each Sunday” because here the whispering begins where at sunset?

3. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?

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

5. On the nights when Juan Pedro does not come home, Cleofilas is said to lie on “her side of the bed listening to the hollow roar of” what?

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