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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “bad air”?
(a) Mala suerte
(b) Mariachi
(c) Mi querida
(d) Mal aire

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

4. “You or No One” is a title of what the short story?
(a) A folk song
(b) A stage play
(c) A Bollywood film
(d) A telenovela

5. Dolores’ husband is said to have died from what in the story?
(a) Cancer
(b) Emphysema
(c) Grief
(d) A heart attack

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the baby do as he pulls up fistfuls of grass by the creek?

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

3. Who is the heroine of “You or No One”?

4. Because Cleofilas’ first child was turned backwards, she had what performed?

5. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that the houses are what?

(see the answer key)

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