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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of Woman Hollering Creek, the narrator says that “no one could say whether the woman had hollered from anger or” what?
(a) Sadness
(b) Pain
(c) Pity
(d) Confusion

3. To whose house does Cleofilas slip away occasionally to watch telenovelas?
(a) Graciela’s
(b) Soledad’s
(c) Don Serafin’s
(d) Lucia Mendez’s

4. What is the full name of Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Juan Pedro Garcia Silva
(b) Juan Pedro Gomez Mendoza
(c) Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez
(d) Juan Pedro Romero Munoz

5. Where does Cleofilas find Juan Pedro’s whiskers every morning?
(a) On the floor
(b) On the table
(c) In the sink
(d) In the bed

Short Answer Questions

1. What genre of which Sandra Cisneros is associated, refers to literature written by Mexican Americans in the United States?

2. What word from the story means “creek” in Spanish?

3. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?

4. In what year did the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo end the Mexican-American war?

5. The heroine of “You or No One” is said to have endured “all kinds of hardships of the heart, separation and betrayal,” but she keeps doing what “because that is the most important thing”?

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