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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 cover of a Mexican news–magazine that depicts graphic images of death and mutilation is described by the narrator as having a lover on the cover photographed with what object that “she used to salvage her good name”?
(a) A bloody fork
(b) A rusty knife
(c) A smoking gun
(d) A weathered hatchet

2. It is pointed out in “Woman Hollering Creek” that Cleofilas does not speak what language?
(a) Spanish
(b) Italian
(c) English
(d) Mandarin

3. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?
(a) Peru
(b) Argentina
(c) Ecuador
(d) Brazil

4. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?
(a) Coahuila
(b) Sonora
(c) Tabasco
(d) Michoacán

5. Where does Cleofilas find Juan Pedro’s whiskers every morning?
(a) On the table
(b) In the bed
(c) On the floor
(d) In the sink

Short Answer Questions

1. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that the houses are what?

2. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?

3. What is translated from Spanish as “who knows, beyond the Indians”?

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. Felice asks Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “Did you ever notice how nothing around here is named after” what?

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