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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) Frantic
(b) Ignorant
(c) Clumsy
(d) Whimsical

2. Of Cleofilas, the narrator says, “Sometimes she thinks of her father’s house. But how could she go back there?” She considers that doing so would be what?
(a) A disgrace
(b) A confession
(c) Committing suicide
(d) Returning to a captor

3. What Spanish term does the author use to refer to a rude or indecent person?
(a) Grosero
(b) Zocalo
(c) Gritona
(d) Hijole

4. Graciela tells her friend on the telephone that Cleofilas has what all over her body?
(a) Hair
(b) Bruises
(c) Sores
(d) Warts

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Juan Pedro demand that each course of dinner be served?

2. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?

3. When was the Spanish author Corin Tellado born?

4. Felice tells Cleofilas that she used to have what kind of car?

5. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine has the ill fortune of falling in love with the beautiful son of what family?

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