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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 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?
(a) The riverbank
(b) The grocery store
(c) The courthouse
(d) The ice house

2. Cleofilas and Juan Pedro plan to get married in what season?
(a) Spring
(b) Winter
(c) Autumn
(d) Summer

3. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?
(a) Saturday
(b) Monday
(c) Thursday
(d) Sunday

4. How many sons did Dolores lose in the last war?
(a) 5
(b) 7
(c) 4
(d) 2

5. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?
(a) Clumsy
(b) Frantic
(c) Whimsical
(d) Ignorant

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?

2. Cleofilas tells her husband that she has a doctor’s appointment on what day of the week and asks him to take her?

3. How many brothers did Sandra Cisneros grow up with?

4. What does Juan Pedro do after beating Cleofilas for the first time, and the times after it?

5. What is Cleofilas’ full name in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

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