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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The thoughts of Cleofilas’ father in the opening of “Woman Hollering Creek” are an example of what literary device?
(a) Biblical allusion
(b) Mixed metaphor
(c) Assonance
(d) Foreshadowing

2. How is Juan Pedro said to laugh, according to the narrator?
(a) Maniacally
(b) Cautiously
(c) Loudly
(d) Softly

3. What is Juan Pedro said to do in public by the narrator?
(a) Beats the children
(b) Weeps openly
(c) Cuts his hair
(d) Cuts his fingernails

4. Who is the heroine of “You or No One”?
(a) Dolores
(b) Graciela
(c) Cleofilas
(d) Lucia Mendez

5. What does the laundromat attendant first yell at Cleofilas for, according to the narrator?
(a) Hanging her clothes to dry
(b) Putting too much soap in the machines
(c) Overloading the machines
(d) Leaving the machines unattended

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Juan Pedro’s vehicle described in the beginning of the story?

2. Juan Pedro throws a book across the room and leaves a hot welt where on Cleofilas?

3. It is pointed out in “Woman Hollering Creek” that Cleofilas does not speak what language?

4. In what year did the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo end the Mexican-American war?

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

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