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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?
(a) His mother
(b) His wife
(c) His son
(d) His brother

2. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro’s face is still scarred from what?
(a) Acne
(b) Knife fights
(c) War
(d) The sun

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

4. Where had Cleofilas seen women being struck before her husband began beating her?
(a) On the telenovelas
(b) At a train station
(c) At the ice house
(d) In a brothel

5. What is Cleofilas’ presumed destination at the end of “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Her mother’s house
(b) Her husband’s house
(c) Her daughter’s house
(d) Her father’s house

Short Answer Questions

1. What cartoon character is described on the baby blanket that Cleofilas lays by the creek?

2. In the town where Cleofilas grew up, the narrator says “there isn’t very much to do except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one or the other to” do what?

3. How does Juan Pedro demand that each course of dinner be served?

4. What does the name Felice mean?

5. Felice says to Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “I guess you’re only famous if you’re” what?

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