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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 is the name of the woman who drowns her children in the legend of “La Llorona”?
(a) Felice
(b) Soledad
(c) Trini
(d) Maria

2. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?
(a) Monkeys
(b) Dogs
(c) Cats
(d) Fish

3. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?
(a) Loving family
(b) Handsome suitor
(c) Happy ending
(d) Screaming harpy

4. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?
(a) The Amtrak Station
(b) The Arroyo Station
(c) The Corpus Station
(d) The Greyhound Station

5. What does the Spanish word “pues” translate to in English?
(a) Well
(b) Make
(c) Lift
(d) Accept

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish word from the story translates to “pregnant”?

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

3. What does Juan Pedro do after beating Cleofilas for the first time, and the times after it?

4. Where does Cleofilas find Juan Pedro’s whiskers every morning?

5. What flowers in Dolores’ garden are described as “fringed and bleeding a thick menstrual color”?

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