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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cleofilas makes the discovery in “Woman Hollering Creek” that the only love that endures is what?
(a) The love between God and man
(b) The love between a person and themselves
(c) The love between parent and child
(d) The love between boy and girl

2. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?
(a) Tu o Nadie
(b) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe.
(c) No es bueno para la salud
(d) En el otro lado

3. 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 Ortiz family
(b) The Morales family
(c) The Hernandez family
(d) The Arrocha family

4. At what time does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas to take her to the bus station?
(a) 1:30 p.m.
(b) 10:30 a.m.
(c) 7:30 a.m.
(d) 12:00 p.m.

5. What is Juan Pedro described as kicking when he says “he hates this shitty house and is going out”?
(a) The oven
(b) The refrigerator
(c) The television
(d) The cabinets

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Sandra Cisneros born?

2. 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?

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?

4. It is pointed out in “Woman Hollering Creek” that Cleofilas does not speak what language?

5. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there are no what for comic relief?

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