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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 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?
(a) The ice house
(b) The riverbank
(c) The grocery store
(d) The courthouse

2. Felice tells Cleofilas that she doesn’t have what?
(a) A job
(b) A husband
(c) A vehicle
(d) A home

3. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?
(a) Soledad
(b) Chela
(c) Felice
(d) Trini

4. Cleofilas imagines that she will wear outfits like what television star once she lives in America?
(a) Sara Carbonero
(b) Lucia Mendez
(c) Ivana Baquero
(d) Elena Anaya

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase from the story is translated from Spanish as “Do you understand?”

2. Cleofilas considers that her husband and the other men at the bar are “nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like” what?

3. What genre of which Sandra Cisneros is associated, refers to literature written by Mexican Americans in the United States?

4. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to what bus station?

5. Woman Hollering Creek is known as the creek one passes on their way where, according to the narrator?

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