1. 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?
(a) A friend in a grave
(b) A stone on a mountaintop
(c) A ring in a drainpipe
(d) A gold doubloon on the sea floor

2. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro’s face is still scarred from what?
(a) War
(b) The sun
(c) Knife fights
(d) Acne

3. Where had Cleofilas seen women being struck before her husband began beating her?
(a) At a train station
(b) On the telenovelas
(c) At the ice house
(d) In a brothel

4. What does Cleofilas make for the doorways without doors in their home?
(a) Fences
(b) Curtains
(c) Walls
(d) Doors

5. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Victimization
(b) Globalization
(c) Parental revenge
(d) Political corruption

Short Answer Questions

1. The cover of a Mexican news–magazine that depicts graphic images of death and mutilation is described by the narrator as having a lover on the cover photographed with what object that “she used to salvage her good name”?

2. What word from the story means “creek” in Spanish?

3. Where does Juan Pedro say he’ll take Cleofilas to buy her wedding dress?

4. What word from the story refers to a dead body?

5. What Spanish term from the story refers to a town square?

(see the answer key)

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