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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the town where Cleofilas grew up, the narrator says “there isn’t very much to do except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one or the other to” do what?
(a) Play cards
(b) Cook food
(c) Listen to the radio
(d) Talk and gossip

2. Cleofilas is said to have always been talented at what?
(a) Painting
(b) Pottery
(c) Sewing
(d) Writing

3. Corin Tellado published more than how many novels in her lifetime?
(a) 1,200
(b) 4,000
(c) 2,250
(d) 750

4. In what direction does Cleofilas’ father imagine her gazing when she might dream of returning home in the beginning of the story?
(a) South
(b) North
(c) East
(d) West

5. What does the laundromat attendant yell at Cleofilas for after her son is born?
(a) Letting him cry constantly
(b) Breast feeding him
(c) Letting him run around naked
(d) Changing his diapers

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Juan Pedro’s vehicle described in the beginning of the story?

2. What flowers in Dolores’ garden have a sad scent that “reminded Cleofilas of the dead”?

3. What does Graciela say she was performing on Cleofilas when she began crying in her phone call?

4. What word from the short story refers to limited–run serial dramatic television shows that are popular in Latin America?

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

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