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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?
(a) Dogs
(b) Monkeys
(c) Fish
(d) Cats

2. Cleofilas considers that her husband and the other men at the bar are “nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like” what?
(a) A stone on a mountaintop
(b) A friend in a grave
(c) A gold doubloon on the sea floor
(d) A ring in a drainpipe

3. The laughter that emerges from Cleofilas’ throat at the end of the story is described as “a long ribbon of laughter” like what?
(a) An avalanche
(b) Lava
(c) Water
(d) Wind

4. Where does author Sandra Cisneros live?
(a) Seguin, Texas
(b) Laredo, Texas
(c) Austin, Texas
(d) San Antonio, Texas

5. What phrase from the story is translated from Spanish as “Do you understand?”
(a) Entiendes? Pues
(b) Mariachi
(c) La consentida
(d) Mal aire

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Cleofilas lament not having in her home with Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

2. It is pointed out in “Woman Hollering Creek” that Cleofilas does not speak what language?

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

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

5. “Woman Hollering Creek” follows what style of plot structure?

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