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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 is the name of Cleofilas’ father in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Juan Pedro
(b) Juan Carlos
(c) Don Serafin
(d) Victor Diaz

2. What does the Spanish word “pues” translate to in English?
(a) Accept
(b) Lift
(c) Well
(d) Make

3. Juan Pedro feels that if Cleofilas “had any brains in her head she’d realize he’s been up before” what, “earning his living”?
(a) The dog
(b) The sheep
(c) The rooster
(d) The cows

4. What does the baby do as he pulls up fistfuls of grass by the creek?
(a) He laughs
(b) He weeps
(c) He sings
(d) He screams

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does “La Llorona” translate to in English?

2. Juan Pedro throws a book across the room and leaves a hot welt where on Cleofilas?

3. What is the name of the city where Cleofilas was born and raised?

4. Of Cleofilas, the narrator says, “Sometimes she thinks of her father’s house. But how could she go back there?” She considers that doing so would be what?

5. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?

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