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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Graciela’s friend agrees to meet Cleofilas at a business by what interstate in order to take her to the bus station?
(a) I-35
(b) I-10
(c) I-70
(d) I-5

2. What is Cleofilas’ presumed destination at the end of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Her daughter’s house
(b) Her father’s house
(c) Her husband’s house
(d) Her mother’s house

3. What Spanish phrase from the story is translated as “on the other side”?
(a) En el otro lado
(b) No es bueno para la salud
(c) Tu o Nadie
(d) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?

3. What is translated from Spanish as “who knows, beyond the Indians”?

4. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

5. What cartoon character is described on the baby blanket that Cleofilas lays by the creek?

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