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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cleofilas tells her husband that she has a doctor’s appointment on what day of the week and asks him to take her?
(a) Friday
(b) Monday
(c) Wednesday
(d) Tuesday

2. Cleofilas makes the discovery in “Woman Hollering Creek” that the only love that endures is what?
(a) The love between boy and girl
(b) The love between parent and child
(c) The love between God and man
(d) The love between a person and themselves

3. How is Juan Pedro said to laugh, according to the narrator?
(a) Softly
(b) Maniacally
(c) Loudly
(d) Cautiously

4. By what term does the narrator refer to the local bar where Juan Pedro drinks?
(a) The ice house
(b) The intoxication station
(c) The palace of suds
(d) The chugging pit

5. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there are no what for comic relief?
(a) Clown characters
(b) Illegitimate affairs
(c) Funny romances
(d) Commercials

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sandra Cisneros born?

2. “You or No One” is a title of what the short story?

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

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

5. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?

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