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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 the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?
(a) Ignorant
(b) Whimsical
(c) Clumsy
(d) Frantic

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

3. What does Cleofilas’ father say to her “in the hubbub of parting” in the beginning of the story?
(a) May you live happily ever after
(b) Make sure he treats you right
(c) I am your father, I will never abandon you
(d) You always were my favorite

4. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?
(a) Mixed metaphor
(b) Biblical allusion
(c) Foreshadowing
(d) Assonance

5. On the nights when Juan Pedro does not come home, Cleofilas is said to lie on “her side of the bed listening to the hollow roar of” what?
(a) The thunder
(b) The owls
(c) The wind
(d) The interstate

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the men at the bar, the narrator says “If they are lucky, there are” what “at the end of the long night”?

2. The cover of a Mexican news–magazine that depicts graphic images of death and mutilation is described by the narrator as having a lover on the cover photographed with what object that “she used to salvage her good name”?

3. Juan Pedro wants to marry Cleofilas right away for what reason?

4. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?

5. What is the name of the city where Cleofilas was born and raised?

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