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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Cleofilas feel about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Offended
(b) Uninterested
(c) Terrified
(d) Fascinated

2. Cleofilas considers that her husband and the other men at the bar are “nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like” what?
(a) A ring in a drainpipe
(b) A gold doubloon on the sea floor
(c) A friend in a grave
(d) A stone on a mountaintop

3. Who is the heroine of “You or No One”?
(a) Lucia Mendez
(b) Dolores
(c) Cleofilas
(d) Graciela

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

5. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Cuts his fingernails
(b) Cuts his hair
(c) Beats the children
(d) Weeps openly

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish phrase from the story is translated as “on the other side”?

2. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “bad air”?

3. Cleofilas makes the discovery in “Woman Hollering Creek” that the only love that endures is what?

4. The heroine of “You or No One” is said to have endured “all kinds of hardships of the heart, separation and betrayal,” but she keeps doing what “because that is the most important thing”?

5. What does Graciela say she was performing on Cleofilas when she began crying in her phone call?

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