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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 is translated from Spanish as “who knows, beyond the Indians”?
(a) No es bueno para la salud
(b) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(c) Tu o Nadie
(d) En el otro lado

2. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro’s face is still scarred from what?
(a) War
(b) Knife fights
(c) Acne
(d) The sun

3. What flowers in Dolores’ garden are described as “fringed and bleeding a thick menstrual color”?
(a) Cockscombs
(b) Orchids
(c) Sunflowers
(d) Roses

4. Cleofilas longs to change her name to something that is more what?
(a) Poetic
(b) Classical
(c) Mystical
(d) Direct

5. Juan Pedro wants to marry Cleofilas right away for what reason?
(a) She is pregnant
(b) They have had a baby
(c) His father insists he marry or he will be disinherited
(d) He can’t take much time off work

Short Answer Questions

1. Juan Pedro feels that if Cleofilas “had any brains in her head she’d realize he’s been up before” what, “earning his living”?

2. What does the name “Soledad” mean in Spanish?

3. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?

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?

5. In Seguin, Cleofilas feels that “the towns here are built so that you have to depend on” what?

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