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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flowers in Dolores’ garden have a sad scent that “reminded Cleofilas of the dead”?
(a) Sunflowers
(b) Roses
(c) Orchids
(d) Cockscombs

2. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to the bus station in what city during her phone call?
(a) Seguin
(b) Laredo
(c) Guadalupe
(d) San Antonio

3. In the folk tale of La Llorona which is cited in “Woman Hollering Creek,” the heroine is not allowed into heaven until she has found what?
(a) Her Bible
(b) Her children
(c) Her mother
(d) Her husband

4. What does Cleofilas’ father say to her “in the hubbub of parting” in the beginning of the story?
(a) You always were my favorite
(b) Make sure he treats you right
(c) I am your father, I will never abandon you
(d) May you live happily ever after

5. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that the houses are what?
(a) More ornate in Seguin
(b) Further apart in Seguin
(c) Dingier in Seguin
(d) Closer together in Seguin

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cleofilas’ full name in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

2. Dolores’ house is said to smell strongly of what in the story?

3. What Spanish phrase in the narrative translates to “bad luck”?

4. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “that life”?

5. To whose house does Cleofilas slip away occasionally to watch telenovelas?

(see the answer key)

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