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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dolores’ house is said to smell strongly of what in the story?
(a) Incense and candles
(b) Beer and cigarettes
(c) Cats
(d) Diapers

2. When was the Spanish author Corin Tellado born?
(a) 1927
(b) 1940
(c) 1908
(d) 1951

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

4. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?
(a) Fish
(b) Dogs
(c) Monkeys
(d) Cats

5. The narrator states early in the story, “To suffer for love is” what?
(a) Essential
(b) Good
(c) Terrible
(d) Expected

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Juan Pedro do after beating Cleofilas for the first time, and the times after it?

2. What does Cleofilas make for the doorways without doors in their home?

3. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?

4. What does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?

5. Felice tells Cleofilas that she used to have what kind of car?

(see the answer key)

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