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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 name of Cleofilas’ son in the story?
(a) Guillermo Clemente
(b) Juan Pedrito
(c) Ricardo Xavier
(d) Alejandro Eduardo

2. What Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?
(a) Mal aire
(b) La consentida
(c) Que vida
(d) Mi querida

3. What is Juan Pedro described as kicking when he says “he hates this shitty house and is going out”?
(a) The cabinets
(b) The television
(c) The refrigerator
(d) The oven

4. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?
(a) Argentina
(b) Peru
(c) Ecuador
(d) Brazil

5. Graciela’s friend agrees to meet Cleofilas at a business by what interstate in order to take her to the bus station?
(a) I-35
(b) I-5
(c) I-10
(d) I-70

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas and Juan Pedro plan to get married in what season?

2. Who does Graciela make a phone call to in the third section of the story?

3. When was Sandra Cisneros born?

4. What is the full name of Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

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

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