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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 name “Dolores” means what in Spanish?
(a) Sorrow
(b) Beautiful
(c) Intelligent
(d) Honest

2. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?
(a) At work
(b) In church
(c) At school
(d) At the library

3. How many brothers does Cleofilas have in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) 4
(b) 6
(c) 2
(d) 3

4. Where does Cleofilas air out her husband’s shoes each evening?
(a) In the bedroom
(b) In the bathroom
(c) In the laundry room
(d) On the porch

5. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?
(a) En el otro lado
(b) Tu o Nadie
(c) No es bueno para la salud
(d) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Felice tells Cleofilas that she used to have what kind of car?

2. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?

3. The narrator describes the character of Maximiliano how in the story?

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

5. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?

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