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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?
(a) Soledad
(b) Felice
(c) Trini
(d) Chela

2. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?
(a) A burro
(b) A wolf
(c) A parrot
(d) A catfish

3. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?
(a) His wife
(b) His brother
(c) His son
(d) His mother

4. By what term does the narrator refer to the local bar where Juan Pedro drinks?
(a) The palace of suds
(b) The ice house
(c) The chugging pit
(d) The intoxication station

5. What does the baby do as he pulls up fistfuls of grass by the creek?
(a) He weeps
(b) He sings
(c) He laughs
(d) He screams

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?

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

3. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?

4. On the nights when Juan Pedro does not come home, Cleofilas is said to lie on “her side of the bed listening to the hollow roar of” what?

5. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?

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