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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?
(a) Dirty boy
(b) Beautiful girl
(c) Gentleman
(d) Old women

2. What word from the short story refers to limited–run serial dramatic television shows that are popular in Latin America?
(a) La Malinche
(b) Telenovelas
(c) Farmacia
(d) Mi querida

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

4. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?
(a) Love
(b) Wealth
(c) Children
(d) Knowledge

5. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro is not very tall and doesn’t look like the men on what?
(a) The magazines
(b) The nightly news
(c) The newspapers
(d) The telenovelas

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrative of “Woman Hollering Creek” is related primarily from what point of view?

2. Cleofilas imagines that she will wear outfits like what television star once she lives in America?

3. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?

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

5. Cleofilas considers that her husband and the other men at the bar are “nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like” what?

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