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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 does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?
(a) Use pepper spray
(b) Call the police
(c) Strike back
(d) Run away

2. The name “Dolores” means what in Spanish?
(a) Honest
(b) Sorrow
(c) Intelligent
(d) Beautiful

3. How many sons did Dolores lose in the last war?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 7

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?
(a) Her Bible
(b) Her husband
(c) Her mother
(d) Her children

5. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?
(a) La consentida
(b) Mi querida
(c) Mal aire
(d) Que vida

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cleofilas feel about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?

2. Who is the laundromat attendant whom Cleofilas asks about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?

3. Who does the truck belong to that Felice picks Cleofilas up in?

4. Cleofilas has doubts about her husband’s fidelity when she finds what arranged in the bathroom a different way?

5. What is the name of Cleofilas’ son in the story?

(see the answer key)

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