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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 does Cleofilas twist into knots, fans, and roses when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?
(a) Her hair
(b) Newspapers
(c) Thread
(d) Napkins

2. The first time that Juan Pedro beats Cleofilas, the narrator describes her lip bleeding like what?
(a) A sunflower
(b) An orchid
(c) A rose
(d) A cockscomb

3. What does the name “Soledad” mean in Spanish?
(a) Happiness
(b) Loneliness
(c) Wonder
(d) Regret

4. Felice asks Cleofilas as they drive out of town, “Did you ever notice how nothing around here is named after” what?
(a) The Bible
(b) A human being
(c) A woman
(d) An animal

5. Cleofilas imagines that she will wear outfits like what television star once she lives in America?
(a) Lucia Mendez
(b) Ivana Baquero
(c) Elena Anaya
(d) Sara Carbonero

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas believes that Juan Pedro has “a very important position” at a company that makes what?

2. La Llorona in "Woman Hollering Creek" represents an archetype for the woman who suffers endlessly for what?

3. The cover of a Mexican news–magazine that depicts graphic images of death and mutilation is described by the narrator as having a lover on the cover photographed with what object that “she used to salvage her good name”?

4. Dolores’ husband is said to have died from what in the story?

5. On what day of the week does Graciela’s friend agree to take Cleofilas to the bus station?

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