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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 does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?
(a) Beautiful girl
(b) Dirty boy
(c) Gentleman
(d) Old women

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

3. 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

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

5. What Spanish term from the story refers to a town square?
(a) Arroyo
(b) Farmacia
(c) Zocalo
(d) Grosero

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?

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

3. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?

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

5. Graciela tells her friend on the phone that she would take Cleofilas to the bus station herself, but Cleofilas needs to be gone before what?

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