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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “You or No One” is a title of what the short story?
(a) A folk song
(b) A Bollywood film
(c) A stage play
(d) A telenovela

2. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?
(a) Knowledge
(b) Children
(c) Wealth
(d) Love

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

4. Cleofilas considers that her husband and the other men at the bar are “nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like” what?
(a) A gold doubloon on the sea floor
(b) A friend in a grave
(c) A stone on a mountaintop
(d) A ring in a drainpipe

5. When Felice drives across the creek with Cleofilas, she opens her mouth and lets “out a yell as loud as any” what?
(a) Caballo
(b) Lobo
(c) Mariachi
(d) Tiburón

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrative of “Woman Hollering Creek” is related primarily from what point of view?

3. How many brothers does Cleofilas have in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

4. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?

5. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?

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