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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Juan Pedro do after beating Cleofilas for the first time, and the times after it?
(a) He weeps
(b) He beats himself
(c) He laughs
(d) He calls his mother

2. The creek that runs behind Cleofilas’ house in America is called what in Spanish?
(a) Que vida
(b) Mi querida
(c) Mala suerte
(d) La Gritona

3. Cleofilas longs to change her name to something that is more what?
(a) Direct
(b) Classical
(c) Poetic
(d) Mystical

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

5. In Seguin, Cleofilas feels that “the towns here are built so that you have to depend on” what?
(a) Husbands
(b) Friends
(c) Children
(d) Animals

Short Answer Questions

1. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?

2. Felice says to Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “I guess you’re only famous if you’re” what?

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

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

5. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro’s face is still scarred from what?

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