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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?
(a) 2002
(b) 1991
(c) 1975
(d) 1983

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

3. How is Juan Pedro’s vehicle described in the beginning of the story?
(a) An old sedan
(b) An old semi
(c) A new convertible
(d) A new pickup

4. What word from the story means “creek” in Spanish?
(a) Farmacia
(b) Arroyo
(c) Zocalo
(d) Telenovelas

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

2. When was the Spanish author Corin Tellado born?

3. Of the “truth” that Cleofilas sees the men attempting to find at the bar, the narrator says that it “gurgles in the throat, it rolls across the surface of the tongue, and erupts from the lips” as what?

4. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “that life”?

5. Who is the heroine of “You or No One”?

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