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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Cleofilas is said to have always been talented at what?
(a) Sewing
(b) Writing
(c) Painting
(d) Pottery

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

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

5. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?
(a) Reading a book
(b) Washing dishes
(c) Cooking dinner
(d) Sewing

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?

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

3. Felice says that the name of Woman Hollering Creek makes her want to “holler like” whom?

4. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?

5. In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?

(see the answer key)

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