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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 laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there are no what for comic relief?
(a) Illegitimate affairs
(b) Clown characters
(c) Commercials
(d) Funny romances

2. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro is not very tall and doesn’t look like the men on what?
(a) The newspapers
(b) The nightly news
(c) The telenovelas
(d) The magazines

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. Who is the laundromat attendant whom Cleofilas asks about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Chela
(b) Dolores
(c) Soledad
(d) Trini

5. What word from the story means causing a shudder or feeling of horror?
(a) Revelation
(b) Ironic
(c) Appalling
(d) Grisly

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the laundromat attendant first yell at Cleofilas for, according to the narrator?

2. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?

3. By what term does the narrator refer to the local bar where Juan Pedro drinks?

4. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the left when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?

5. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?

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