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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 does the name Graciela mean in Spanish?
(a) Gecko
(b) Green
(c) Grain
(d) Grace

2. When did Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors conquer the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan?
(a) 1784
(b) 1521
(c) 1308
(d) 1649

3. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?
(a) En el otro lado
(b) Tu o Nadie
(c) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe.
(d) No es bueno para la salud

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

5. What does the name Felice mean?
(a) Happiness
(b) Flower
(c) Mountain
(d) Insight

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?

2. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?

3. What is Cleofilas doing when Maximiliano makes a rude gesture implying she needs to have sex?

4. What is the name of the city where Cleofilas was born and raised?

5. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?

(see the answer key)

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