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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Woman Hollering Creek” follows what style of plot structure?
(a) Epic
(b) Episodic
(c) Linear
(d) Gothic

2. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?
(a) The drought
(b) The bickering
(c) The roads
(d) The chores

3. In Seguin, Cleofilas feels that “the towns here are built so that you have to depend on” what?
(a) Animals
(b) Husbands
(c) Friends
(d) Children

4. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “that life”?
(a) Que vida
(b) Tu o Nadie
(c) Entiendes? Pues
(d) Mala suerte

5. How many brothers did Sandra Cisneros grow up with?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 9
(d) 6

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the “truth” that Cleofilas sees the men attempting to find at the bar, the narrator says that it “gurgles in the throat, it rolls across the surface of the tongue, and erupts from the lips” as what?

2. Cleofilas believes that Juan Pedro has “a very important position” at a company that makes what?

3. Seguin, Texas is located in what county?

4. 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?

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

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