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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine has the ill fortune of falling in love with the beautiful son of what family?
(a) The Morales family
(b) The Arrocha family
(c) The Ortiz family
(d) The Hernandez family

2. Who will apply the hair rinse that Cleofilas goes to buy early in the story?
(a) Chela
(b) Dolores
(c) Soledad
(d) Maria

3. What is Graciela’s position in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) She is a physician
(b) She is a musician
(c) She is a seamstress
(d) She is a librarian

4. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?
(a) A wolf
(b) A catfish
(c) A burro
(d) A parrot

5. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(b) Mi querida
(c) No es bueno para la salud
(d) En el otro lado

Short Answer Questions

1. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?

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

3. How does Cleofilas feel about Felice?

4. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?

5. How is Juan Pedro’s vehicle described in the beginning of the story?

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