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

2. Where had Cleofilas seen women being struck before her husband began beating her?
(a) At a train station
(b) In a brothel
(c) At the ice house
(d) On the telenovelas

3. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?
(a) The roads
(b) The chores
(c) The drought
(d) The bickering

4. Who does Graciela make a phone call to in the third section of the story?
(a) Dolores
(b) Felice
(c) Maria
(d) Soledad

5. What word from the story means causing a shudder or feeling of horror?
(a) Appalling
(b) Ironic
(c) Revelation
(d) Grisly

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas longs to change her name to something that is more what?

2. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the left when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?

3. Felice asks Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “Did you ever notice how nothing around here is named after” what?

4. What word from the short story refers to limited–run serial dramatic television shows that are popular in Latin America?

5. Cleofilas considers that her husband and the other men at the bar are “nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like” what?

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