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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is pointed out in “Woman Hollering Creek” that Cleofilas does not speak what language?
(a) Spanish
(b) English
(c) Mandarin
(d) Italian

2. Cleofilas has doubts about her husband’s fidelity when she finds what arranged in the bathroom a different way?
(a) Her makeup and hairbrush
(b) Her nail clippers and file
(c) Her toothbrush
(d) Her medicine

3. Felice says that the name of Woman Hollering Creek makes her want to “holler like” whom?
(a) Yosemite Sam
(b) A monkey
(c) Tarzan
(d) A banshee

4. Felice says to Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “I guess you’re only famous if you’re” what?
(a) A whore
(b) A teacher
(c) A virgin
(d) A mother

5. Of the men at the bar, the narrator says “If they are lucky, there are” what “at the end of the long night”?
(a) Fights
(b) Hugs
(c) Tears
(d) Revelations

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the baby do as he pulls up fistfuls of grass by the creek?

2. What is the name of the city where Cleofilas was born and raised?

3. The narrator says early in the story, “But what Cleofilas has been waiting for, has been whispering and sighing and giggling for, has been anticipating since she was old enough to lean against the window displays of gauze and butterflies and lace, is” what?

4. What phrase from the story is translated from Spanish as “Do you understand?”

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

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