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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 Spanish phrase from the story translates to “my darling”?
(a) Que vida
(b) Mal aire
(c) Mi querida
(d) La consentida

2. What does the Spanish word “viejas” translate to in English?
(a) Old women
(b) Dirty boy
(c) Beautiful girl
(d) Gentleman

3. How many brothers did Sandra Cisneros grow up with?
(a) 6
(b) 2
(c) 9
(d) 4

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?

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

3. What does the name Graciela mean in Spanish?

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

5. In what year did Mexico win independence from Spain?

(see the answer key)

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