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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 phrase used in the story translates to “princess”?
(a) Tu o Nadie
(b) Que vida
(c) La Llorona
(d) La consentida

2. 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 cabinets
(d) The television

3. What does Graciela say she was performing on Cleofilas when she began crying in her phone call?
(a) A cardiogram
(b) A hologram
(c) A seismogram
(d) A sonogram

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

5. Seguin, Texas is located in what county?
(a) Fisher County
(b) Guadalupe County
(c) Trinity County
(d) Camp County

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Woman Hollering Creek, the narrator says that “no one could say whether the woman had hollered from anger or” what?

2. In some variations of the legend of La Llorona, she merges into what mistress of the conqueror Hernan Cortes?

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

4. As Cleofilas sits by the creek with her son in the beginning of the story, she thinks “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that love” does what?

5. Where was Sandra Cisneros born?

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