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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Cleofilas’ neighbors considers herself a widow but never mentions her husband?
(a) Felice
(b) Dolores
(c) Chela
(d) Soledad

2. At what time does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas to take her to the bus station?
(a) 1:30 p.m.
(b) 10:30 a.m.
(c) 7:30 a.m.
(d) 12:00 p.m.

3. In what year did the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo end the Mexican-American war?
(a) 1875
(b) 1798
(c) 1848
(d) 1904

4. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?
(a) Victor Silvio
(b) Enrique Antonio
(c) Juan Carlos
(d) Horacio Pedro

5. 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?
(a) The Rich Also Cry
(b) Days of Our Lives
(c) The Bold and the Beautiful
(d) The Farmer’s Wife

Short Answer Questions

1. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?

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

3. How is Juan Pedro said to laugh, according to the narrator?

4. Where does author Sandra Cisneros live?

5. What is the name of the woman who drowns her children in the legend of “La Llorona”?

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