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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?
(a) 1821
(b) 1844
(c) 1805
(d) 1776

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

4. Felice says that the name of Woman Hollering Creek makes her want to “holler like” whom?
(a) A monkey
(b) Yosemite Sam
(c) A banshee
(d) Tarzan

5. At what time does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas to take her to the bus station?
(a) 7:30 a.m.
(b) 12:00 p.m.
(c) 10:30 a.m.
(d) 1:30 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the laundromat attendant first yell at Cleofilas for, according to the narrator?

2. Cleofilas has doubts about her husband’s fidelity when she finds what arranged in the bathroom a different way?

3. In Graciela’s phone call in the third section of the story, she tells her friend she can’t talk louder because she’s where?

4. What is the name of the woman who drowns her children in the legend of “La Llorona”?

5. At what time is Cleofilas’ doctor’s appointment when she goes to see about the health of her second pregnancy?

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