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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 name “Dolores” means what in Spanish?
(a) Sorrow
(b) Intelligent
(c) Beautiful
(d) Honest

2. What is translated from Spanish as “who knows, beyond the Indians”?
(a) Tu o Nadie
(b) No es bueno para la salud
(c) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(d) En el otro lado

3. What does Cleofilas sip “until it grows warm” when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?
(a) A margarita
(b) A glass of whiskey
(c) A beer
(d) Gin and tonic

4. The narrative of “Woman Hollering Creek” is related primarily from what point of view?
(a) Fourth person
(b) Second person
(c) Third person
(d) First person

5. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?
(a) The chores
(b) The drought
(c) The bickering
(d) The roads

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?

2. Corin Tellado was a prolific Spanish writer of what genre?

3. The character of Felice represents what to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

4. What flowers in Dolores’ garden are described as “fringed and bleeding a thick menstrual color”?

5. In the folk tale of La Llorona which is cited in “Woman Hollering Creek,” the heroine is not allowed into heaven until she has found what?

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