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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro has a bit of a belly from what?
(a) Eating sweets
(b) Eating too much meat
(c) The wine he drinks
(d) The beer he drinks

2. Cleofilas longs to change her name to something that is more what?
(a) Poetic
(b) Mystical
(c) Classical
(d) Direct

3. Corin Tellado was a prolific Spanish writer of what genre?
(a) Science fiction novels
(b) Historical novels
(c) Romance novels
(d) Modernist novels

4. In what direction does Cleofilas’ father imagine her gazing when she might dream of returning home in the beginning of the story?
(a) North
(b) East
(c) South
(d) West

5. What is the name of the woman who drowns her children in the legend of “La Llorona”?
(a) Soledad
(b) Maria
(c) Trini
(d) Felice

Short Answer Questions

1. The character of Felice represents what to Cleofilas in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

2. Who is the laundromat attendant whom Cleofilas asks about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?

3. What does Cleofilas sip “until it grows warm” when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?

4. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?

5. The name “Dolores” means what in Spanish?

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