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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Woman Hollering Creek” follows what style of plot structure?
(a) Episodic
(b) Epic
(c) Linear
(d) Gothic

2. The narrator says early in the story, “But what Cleofilas has been waiting for, has been whispering and sighing and giggling for, has been anticipating since she was old enough to lean against the window displays of gauze and butterflies and lace, is” what?
(a) Passion
(b) Peace
(c) Prominence
(d) Purpose

3. How is Juan Pedro’s vehicle described in the beginning of the story?
(a) A new convertible
(b) A new pickup
(c) An old sedan
(d) An old semi

4. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?
(a) Wealth
(b) Knowledge
(c) Love
(d) Children

5. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Cuts his hair
(b) Cuts his fingernails
(c) Beats the children
(d) Weeps openly

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas is looking for her maid of honor to fulfill what conspiracy in the opening of the story?

2. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?

3. 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?

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

5. What is Graciela’s position in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

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