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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 and Juan Pedro plan to get married in what season?
(a) Autumn
(b) Summer
(c) Winter
(d) Spring

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

3. When was the Spanish author Corin Tellado born?
(a) 1951
(b) 1940
(c) 1927
(d) 1908

4. Dolores’ house is said to smell strongly of what in the story?
(a) Cats
(b) Incense and candles
(c) Diapers
(d) Beer and cigarettes

5. What phrase used in the story translates to “princess”?
(a) La Llorona
(b) Que vida
(c) La consentida
(d) Tu o Nadie

Short Answer Questions

1. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?

2. What does Cleofilas sip “until it grows warm” when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?

3. What town does Juan Pedro take Cleofilas to live in after they wed?

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

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

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