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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) 1954
(b) 1941
(c) 1946
(d) 1935

2. What does Cleofilas make for the doorways without doors in their home?
(a) Walls
(b) Curtains
(c) Fences
(d) Doors

3. The narrator compares the men of the bar do what creatures, “chasing their own tails before lying down to sleep”?
(a) Monkeys
(b) Fish
(c) Cats
(d) Dogs

4. Sandra Cisneros’ anthology Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories was published in what year?
(a) 1991
(b) 1975
(c) 2002
(d) 1983

5. 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?
(a) Her husband
(b) Her children
(c) Her Bible
(d) Her mother

Short Answer Questions

1. In the telenovela Maria de Nadie, the heroine is a poor country girl from where?

2. At what business does Graciela’s friend agree to meet Cleofilas in order to drive her to the bus station?

3. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?

4. Corin Tellado was a prolific Spanish writer of what genre?

5. Of the men at the bar, the narrator says “If they are lucky, there are” what “at the end of the long night”?

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