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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 laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?
(a) Happy ending
(b) Handsome suitor
(c) Screaming harpy
(d) Loving family

2. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Beats the children
(b) Cuts his hair
(c) Weeps openly
(d) Cuts his fingernails

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

4. The first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas, the narrator describes her lip bleeding like what?
(a) A rose
(b) A cockscomb
(c) An orchid
(d) A sunflower

5. What flowers in Dolores’ garden are described as “fringed and bleeding a thick menstrual color”?
(a) Roses
(b) Sunflowers
(c) Cockscombs
(d) Orchids

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sons did Dolores lose in the last war?

2. 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?

3. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?

4. What does Cleofilas’ father say to her “in the hubbub of parting” in the beginning of the story?

5. The creek that runs behind Cleofilas’ house in America is called what in Spanish?

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