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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will apply the hair rinse that Cleofilas goes to buy early in the story?
(a) Soledad
(b) Maria
(c) Chela
(d) Dolores

2. What is translated from Spanish as “who knows, beyond the Indians”?
(a) No es bueno para la salud
(b) En el otro lado
(c) Tu o Nadie
(d) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe

3. Cleofilas thinks as she laments her unhappy marriage, “Everything happened to women with names like” what?
(a) Europeans
(b) Poetry
(c) Jewels
(d) Birds

4. What flowers in Dolores’ garden are described as “fringed and bleeding a thick menstrual color”?
(a) Cockscombs
(b) Sunflowers
(c) Orchids
(d) Roses

5. Of Cleofilas, the narrator says, “Sometimes she thinks of her father’s house. But how could she go back there?” She considers that doing so would be what?
(a) Committing suicide
(b) A disgrace
(c) Returning to a captor
(d) A confession

Short Answer Questions

1. Graciela tells her friend on the phone that she would take Cleofilas to the bus station herself, but Cleofilas needs to be gone before what?

2. The creek that runs behind Cleofilas’ house in America is called what in Spanish?

3. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the right when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?

4. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro is not very tall and doesn’t look like the men on what?

5. The cover of a Mexican news–magazine that depicts graphic images of death and mutilation is described by the narrator as having a lover on the cover photographed with what object that “she used to salvage her good name”?

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