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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Days of Our Lives
(b) The Farmer’s Wife
(c) The Rich Also Cry
(d) The Bold and the Beautiful

2. In the town where Cleofilas grew up, the narrator says “there isn’t very much to do except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one or the other to” do what?
(a) Talk and gossip
(b) Cook food
(c) Listen to the radio
(d) Play cards

3. What Spanish phrase in the narrative translates to “bad luck”?
(a) Mi querida
(b) Mariachi
(c) Mal aire
(d) Mala suerte

4. “Woman Hollering Creek” follows what style of plot structure?
(a) Episodic
(b) Epic
(c) Gothic
(d) Linear

5. The heroine of “You or No One” is also said to be in commercials for what product in the story?
(a) Lubriderm lotion
(b) Bayer aspirin
(c) Bic razors
(d) Suave shampoo

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish word from the story translates to “pregnant”?

2. What does “La Llorona” translate to in English?

3. Who does Graciela make a phone call to in the third section of the story?

4. In some variations of the legend of La Llorona, she merges into what mistress of the conqueror Hernan Cortes?

5. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?

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