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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 word from the story means causing a shudder or feeling of horror?
(a) Appalling
(b) Grisly
(c) Revelation
(d) Ironic

2. Of Woman Hollering Creek, the narrator says that “no one could say whether the woman had hollered from anger or” what?
(a) Confusion
(b) Pain
(c) Pity
(d) Sadness

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

4. Who does the truck belong to that Felice picks Cleofilas up in?
(a) Maria
(b) Graciela
(c) Soledad
(d) Felice

5. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?
(a) A burro
(b) A wolf
(c) A parrot
(d) A catfish

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. On the nights when Juan Pedro does not come home, Cleofilas is said to lie on “her side of the bed listening to the hollow roar of” what?

4. Felice says that the name of Woman Hollering Creek makes her want to “holler like” whom?

5. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?

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