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

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

3. What does the baby do as he pulls up fistfuls of grass by the creek?
(a) He screams
(b) He sings
(c) He weeps
(d) He laughs

4. What phrase from the story is translated from Spanish as “Do you understand?”
(a) La consentida
(b) Mal aire
(c) Entiendes? Pues
(d) Mariachi

5. Of the men at the bar, the narrator says “If they are lucky, there are” what “at the end of the long night”?
(a) Fights
(b) Revelations
(c) Tears
(d) Hugs

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cleofilas suggests writing to ask for money for the new baby’s expenses?

2. Dolores’ garden is famous for what flowers that must be supported with broom handles and old boards?

3. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?

4. Which character takes over the narration in the third section of “Woman Hollering Creek”?

5. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that in Seguin there is no “huddled whispering on the church steps each Sunday” because here the whispering begins where at sunset?

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