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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 mother
(b) Her husband
(c) Her Bible
(d) Her children

2. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Parental revenge
(b) Globalization
(c) Political corruption
(d) Victimization

3. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?
(a) Dirty boy
(b) Gentleman
(c) Old women
(d) Beautiful girl

4. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?
(a) Juan Carlos
(b) Victor Silvio
(c) Horacio Pedro
(d) Enrique Antonio

5. Cleofilas believes that Juan Pedro has “a very important position” at a company that makes what?
(a) Beer
(b) Computers
(c) Diapers
(d) Tequila

Short Answer Questions

1. As Cleofilas sits by the creek with her son in the beginning of the story, she thinks “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that love” does what?

2. The narrator describes the character of Maximiliano how in the story?

3. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?

4. 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?

5. In the town where Cleofilas grew up, the narrator says “there isn’t very much to do except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one or the other to” do what?

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