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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?
(a) Ignorant
(b) Whimsical
(c) Clumsy
(d) Frantic

2. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?
(a) Washing dishes
(b) Reading a book
(c) Sewing
(d) Cooking dinner

3. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?
(a) Tabasco
(b) Coahuila
(c) Michoacán
(d) Sonora

4. What does the name Felice mean?
(a) Insight
(b) Happiness
(c) Mountain
(d) Flower

5. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?
(a) His brother
(b) His wife
(c) His mother
(d) His son

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?

2. What is the full name of Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

3. Felice asks Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “Did you ever notice how nothing around here is named after” what?

4. What Spanish word in the story refers to the store where Cleofilas goes to buy a hair rinse?

5. In Seguin, Cleofilas feels that “the towns here are built so that you have to depend on” what?

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