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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 Spanish term does the author use to refer to a rude or indecent person?
(a) Zocalo
(b) Hijole
(c) Gritona
(d) Grosero

2. Cleofilas tells her husband that she has a doctor’s appointment on what day of the week and asks him to take her?
(a) Wednesday
(b) Friday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Monday

3. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there is no what in sight?
(a) Happy ending
(b) Handsome suitor
(c) Screaming harpy
(d) Loving family

4. The heroine of “You or No One” is also said to be in commercials for what product in the story?
(a) Suave shampoo
(b) Lubriderm lotion
(c) Bic razors
(d) Bayer aspirin

5. 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) The weekend
(b) The sun goes down
(c) The sun comes up
(d) Her husband gets home from work

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?

2. Regarding Cleofilas’ feelings for Juan Pedro, the narrator states, “She has to remind herself why she loves him when she changes” what?

3. What word from the story means “creek” in Spanish?

4. What does the laundromat attendant yell at Cleofilas for after her son is born?

5. Juan Pedro wants to marry Cleofilas right away for what reason?

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