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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 phrase in the narrative translates to “bad luck”?
(a) Mala suerte
(b) Mi querida
(c) Mal aire
(d) Mariachi

2. Dolores’ garden is famous for what flowers that must be supported with broom handles and old boards?
(a) Sunflowers
(b) Cockscombs
(c) Orchids
(d) Roses

3. What does the narrator describe Cleofilas buying in the center of the town where she grew up in “that will appear in a day and a half as a pimple on her backside”?
(a) A slice of cake
(b) Chocolate chip cookies
(c) A milk shake
(d) A burrito

4. What does Graciela say she was performing on Cleofilas when she began crying in her phone call?
(a) A sonogram
(b) A cardiogram
(c) A hologram
(d) A seismogram

5. What word from the story means causing a shudder or feeling of horror?
(a) Grisly
(b) Appalling
(c) Revelation
(d) Ironic

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will apply the hair rinse that Cleofilas goes to buy early in the story?

2. Seguin, Texas is located in what county?

3. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?

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

5. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?

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