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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 many brothers does Cleofilas have in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 6

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

3. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?
(a) Beautiful girl
(b) Dirty boy
(c) Gentleman
(d) Old women

4. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?
(a) 1649
(b) 1521
(c) 1784
(d) 1308

5. 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 the library
(b) At school
(c) At work
(d) In church

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cleofilas’ presumed destination at the end of “Woman Hollering Creek”?

2. When was the Spanish author Corin Tellado born?

3. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?

4. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?

5. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?

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