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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of Cleofilas, the narrator says, “Sometimes she thinks of her father’s house. But how could she go back there?” She considers that doing so would be what?
(a) Committing suicide
(b) A confession
(c) Returning to a captor
(d) A disgrace

2. Cleofilas imagines that she will wear outfits like what television star once she lives in America?
(a) Ivana Baquero
(b) Elena Anaya
(c) Lucia Mendez
(d) Sara Carbonero

3. What does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?
(a) Her hair
(b) Newspapers
(c) Napkins
(d) Thread

4. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?
(a) Her family has a rivalry with them
(b) She works for them
(c) She has robbed them
(d) She has been adopted by them

5. How many brothers did Sandra Cisneros grow up with?
(a) 9
(b) 6
(c) 2
(d) 4

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase used in the story translates to “princess”?

2. When Felice drives across the creek with Cleofilas, she opens her mouth and lets “out a yell as loud as any” what?

3. What is the name of the city where Cleofilas was born and raised?

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

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

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