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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The character of Felice represents what to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Inadequacy
(b) Independence
(c) Adultery
(d) Abuse

2. Where does Juan Pedro say he’ll take Cleofilas to buy her wedding dress?
(a) Laredo, Texas
(b) Dallas, Texas
(c) Amarillo, Texas
(d) Houston, Texas

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?
(a) Her husband
(b) Her children
(c) Her mother
(d) Her Bible

4. What is the name of Cleofilas’ father in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Juan Pedro
(b) Victor Diaz
(c) Juan Carlos
(d) Don Serafin

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?
(a) The sun comes up
(b) Her husband gets home from work
(c) The weekend
(d) The sun goes down

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Cleofilas’ maid of honor at her wedding?

2. The creek that runs behind Cleofilas’ house in America is called what in Spanish?

3. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?

4. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?

5. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?

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