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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Juan Pedro demand that each course of dinner be served?
(a) With fresh napkins
(b) With a new fork
(c) With a piece of fruit
(d) On a separate plate

2. The narrator states early in the story, “To suffer for love is” what?
(a) Good
(b) Expected
(c) Essential
(d) Terrible

3. What title in the short story refers to a Mexican news–magazine specializing in graphic photographs of accidents and murder victims?
(a) Murmullo
(b) Alarma
(c) Tartamudeo
(d) Grito

4. 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?
(a) At work
(b) In church
(c) At school
(d) At the library

5. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro has a bit of a belly from what?
(a) Eating sweets
(b) The beer he drinks
(c) The wine he drinks
(d) Eating too much meat

Short Answer Questions

1. Seguin, Texas is located in what county?

2. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?

3. To whose house does Cleofilas slip away occasionally to watch telenovelas?

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

5. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?

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