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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that in Seguin there is no “huddled whispering on the church steps each Sunday” because here the whispering begins where at sunset?
(a) The ice house
(b) The grocery store
(c) The courthouse
(d) The riverbank

2. What does the name “Soledad” mean in Spanish?
(a) Loneliness
(b) Regret
(c) Wonder
(d) Happiness

3. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?
(a) Birds
(b) Europeans
(c) Poetry
(d) Jewels

4. The narrator describes the character of Maximiliano how in the story?
(a) The well-dressed businessman from across town
(b) The foul-smelling fool from across the road
(c) The hardworking miner
(d) The lazy bank teller

5. It is pointed out in “Woman Hollering Creek” that Cleofilas does not speak what language?
(a) Spanish
(b) English
(c) Mandarin
(d) Italian

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?

2. How many brothers did Sandra Cisneros grow up with?

3. When was the Spanish author Corin Tellado born?

4. What is Cleofilas’ presumed destination at the end of “Woman Hollering Creek”?

5. The creek that runs behind Cleofilas’ house in America is called what in Spanish?

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