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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(b) No es bueno para la salud
(c) En el otro lado
(d) Mi querida

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

3. Describing Cleofilas’ name, Graciela suggests she is named after what?
(a) A wildflower
(b) A Queen of Spain
(c) A grandmother
(d) A Mexican saint

4. What is the name of Cleofilas’ son in the story?
(a) Ricardo Xavier
(b) Guillermo Clemente
(c) Alejandro Eduardo
(d) Juan Pedrito

5. What kind of vehicle is Felice driving when she arrives to meet Cleofilas?
(a) A luxury car
(b) A pickup truck
(c) A sedan
(d) A sports car

Short Answer Questions

1. What cartoon character is described on the baby blanket that Cleofilas lays by the creek?

2. What word from the story refers to a dead body?

3. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?

4. In the folk tale of La Llorona which is cited in “Woman Hollering Creek,” the heroine is not allowed into heaven until she has found what?

5. Cleofilas is looking for her maid of honor to fulfill what conspiracy in the opening of the story?

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