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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 is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?
(a) She has robbed them
(b) Her family has a rivalry with them
(c) She has been adopted by them
(d) She works for them

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

3. At what business does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas in order to drive her to the bus station?
(a) The ice house
(b) The Cash-N-Carry
(c) The K-mart
(d) The Walgreens

4. In the second section of the story, the narrator speaks in direct address to the reader, asking “Did you watch last night’s episode of” what show?
(a) The Bold and the Beautiful
(b) Days of Our Lives
(c) The Farmer’s Wife
(d) The Rich Also Cry

5. What Spanish term from the story refers to a town square?
(a) Zocalo
(b) Arroyo
(c) Farmacia
(d) Grosero

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the story means causing a shudder or feeling of horror?

2. What title in the short story refers to a Mexican news–magazine specializing in graphic photographs of accidents and murder victims?

3. What phrase used in the story translates to “princess”?

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

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

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