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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Juan Pedro say he’ll take Cleofilas to buy her wedding dress?
(a) Houston, Texas
(b) Laredo, Texas
(c) Amarillo, Texas
(d) Dallas, Texas

2. Cleofilas laments that her life has become like a telenovela except there are no what for comic relief?
(a) Clown characters
(b) Funny romances
(c) Commercials
(d) Illegitimate affairs

3. What is the name of the wealthy son that the heroine of Maria de Nadie falls in love with?
(a) Enrique Antonio
(b) Horacio Pedro
(c) Victor Silvio
(d) Juan Carlos

4. What flowers in Dolores’ garden are described as “fringed and bleeding a thick menstrual color”?
(a) Roses
(b) Sunflowers
(c) Cockscombs
(d) Orchids

5. What does the name Graciela mean in Spanish?
(a) Grain
(b) Green
(c) Gecko
(d) Grace

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas to take her to the bus station?

2. What does Cleofilas sip “until it grows warm” when she accompanies her husband to the bar in their first year of marriage?

3. Maximiliano was said to have killed who in a bar brawl?

4. In the folk tale of La Llorona which is cited in “Woman Hollering Creek,” the heroine is not allowed into heaven until she has found what?

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

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