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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro is not very tall and doesn’t look like the men on what?
(a) The newspapers
(b) The nightly news
(c) The telenovelas
(d) The magazines

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

3. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?
(a) 1308
(b) 1784
(c) 1649
(d) 1521

4. In Seguin, Cleofilas feels that “the towns here are built so that you have to depend on” what?
(a) Friends
(b) Husbands
(c) Animals
(d) Children

5. What Spanish phrase in the narrative translates to “bad luck”?
(a) Mala suerte
(b) Mal aire
(c) Mi querida
(d) Mariachi

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character takes over the narration in the third section of “Woman Hollering Creek”?

2. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?

3. What flowers in Dolores’ garden have a sad scent that “reminded Cleofilas of the dead”?

4. What does Cleofilas make for the doorways without doors in their home?

5. What is Graciela’s position in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

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