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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Cleofilas air out her husband’s shoes each evening?
(a) In the bedroom
(b) In the laundry room
(c) In the bathroom
(d) On the porch

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

3. Describing Seguin, Texas, the narrator states “This town with its silly pride for” what “the size of a baby carriage in front of the city hall”?
(a) A bronze pecan
(b) A petrified log
(c) A quartz crystal
(d) An anchor

4. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?
(a) Brazil
(b) Ecuador
(c) Peru
(d) Argentina

5. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(b) En el otro lado
(c) Mi querida
(d) No es bueno para la salud

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cleofilas put her bags when she meets Felice at the end of the story?

2. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?

3. What is the name of Cleofilas’ maid of honor at her wedding?

4. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?

5. When was Sandra Cisneros born?

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