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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 Cleofilas’ neighbor to the left when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Lucia
(b) Soledad
(c) Chela
(d) Graciela

2. What town does Juan Pedro take Cleofilas to live in after they wed?
(a) Laredo, Texas
(b) Seguin, Texas
(c) Austin, Texas
(d) Dallas, Texas

3. What is the full name of Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Juan Pedro Gomez Mendoza
(b) Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez
(c) Juan Pedro Romero Munoz
(d) Juan Pedro Garcia Silva

4. In some variations of the legend of La Llorona, she merges into what mistress of the conqueror Hernan Cortes?
(a) La Consentida
(b) La Viuda
(c) La Malinche
(d) La Llorona

5. To whose house does Cleofilas slip away occasionally to watch telenovelas?
(a) Lucia Mendez’s
(b) Soledad’s
(c) Graciela’s
(d) Don Serafin’s

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the Spanish author Corin Tellado born?

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

4. Of the “truth” that Cleofilas sees the men attempting to find at the bar, the narrator says that it “gurgles in the throat, it rolls across the surface of the tongue, and erupts from the lips” as what?

5. Cleofilas makes the discovery in “Woman Hollering Creek” that the only love that endures is what?

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