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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Seguin, Texas is located in what county?
(a) Camp County
(b) Fisher County
(c) Trinity County
(d) Guadalupe County

2. Juan Pedro throws a book across the room and leaves a hot welt where on Cleofilas?
(a) Her forehead
(b) Her neck
(c) Her cheek
(d) Her ear

3. On the nights when Juan Pedro does not come home, Cleofilas is said to lie on “her side of the bed listening to the hollow roar of” what?
(a) The owls
(b) The wind
(c) The thunder
(d) The interstate

4. Where does Juan Pedro say he’ll take Cleofilas to buy her wedding dress?
(a) Houston, Texas
(b) Amarillo, Texas
(c) Laredo, Texas
(d) Dallas, Texas

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase from the story is translated from Spanish as “Do you understand?”

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

3. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?

4. What does the narrator describe Cleofilas buying in the center of the town where she grew up in “that will appear in a day and a half as a pimple on her backside”?

5. What Spanish term does the author use to refer to a rude or indecent person?

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