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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Graciela make a phone call to in the third section of the story?
(a) Felice
(b) Dolores
(c) Soledad
(d) Maria

2. What does Juan Pedro do after beating Cleofilas for the first time, and the times after it?
(a) He weeps
(b) He laughs
(c) He calls his mother
(d) He beats himself

3. Dolores’ husband is said to have died from what in the story?
(a) Grief
(b) Cancer
(c) A heart attack
(d) Emphysema

4. The first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas, the narrator describes her lip bleeding like what?
(a) An orchid
(b) A rose
(c) A cockscomb
(d) A sunflower

5. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?
(a) 1983
(b) 1991
(c) 2002
(d) 1975

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the story means “creek” in Spanish?

2. Describing Cleofilas’ name, Graciela suggests she is named after what?

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”?

4. Of the men at the bar, the narrator says “If they are lucky, there are” what “at the end of the long night”?

5. Cleofilas has doubts about her husband’s fidelity when she finds what arranged in the bathroom a different way?

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