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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 what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?
(a) 1776
(b) 1805
(c) 1821
(d) 1844

2. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “that life”?
(a) Tu o Nadie
(b) Entiendes? Pues
(c) Que vida
(d) Mala suerte

3. What Spanish phrase in the narrative translates to “bad luck”?
(a) Mal aire
(b) Mariachi
(c) Mala suerte
(d) Mi querida

4. The heroine of “You or No One” is said to have endured “all kinds of hardships of the heart, separation and betrayal,” but she keeps doing what “because that is the most important thing”?
(a) Thinking
(b) Praying
(c) Loving
(d) Breathing

5. In the beginning of the story, Cleofilas’ father imagines her one day dreaming of returning to what “that never ended”?
(a) The roads
(b) The chores
(c) The bickering
(d) The drought

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cleofilas’ full name in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

2. What Spanish word from the story translates to “pregnant”?

3. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?

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

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

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