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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Cleofilas air out her husband’s shoes each evening?
(a) On the porch
(b) In the bedroom
(c) In the laundry room
(d) In the bathroom

2. What does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?
(a) Run away
(b) Use pepper spray
(c) Strike back
(d) Call the police

3. The character of Felice represents what to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Inadequacy
(b) Independence
(c) Adultery
(d) Abuse

4. Describing Seguin, Texas, the narrator states “This town with its silly pride for” what “the size of a baby carriage in front of the city hall”?
(a) An anchor
(b) A petrified log
(c) A bronze pecan
(d) A quartz crystal

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Cleofilas is looking for her maid of honor to fulfill what conspiracy in the opening of the story?

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

4. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?

5. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?

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