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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Her husband gets home from work
(b) The sun goes down
(c) The sun comes up
(d) The weekend

2. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?
(a) Saturday
(b) Thursday
(c) Sunday
(d) Monday

3. Cleofilas is looking for her maid of honor to fulfill what conspiracy in the opening of the story?
(a) Their hopeful conspiracy
(b) Their marriage conspiracy
(c) Their childhood dream conspiracy
(d) Their bouquet conspiracy

4. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?
(a) Mi querida
(b) No es bueno para la salud
(c) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(d) En el otro lado

5. Juan Pedro wants to marry Cleofilas right away for what reason?
(a) She is pregnant
(b) His father insists he marry or he will be disinherited
(c) They have had a baby
(d) He can’t take much time off work

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sons did Dolores lose in the last war?

2. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?

3. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?

4. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?

5. Cleofilas and Juan Pedro plan to get married in what season?

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