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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleopatra ask Tully to help her find?

2. What treasure does Willie Singer show Tully in chapter 3?

3. What is the name of the captain of the Lucretia?

4. Who gives Tully the Heimlich when he is choking at dinner?

5. What is the name of Tully's horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the Stilton twins?

2. What does Donna Kay tell Tully in the tree house?

3. How was Tully inadvertently a matchmaker for Donna Kay and Clark?

4. How is the singer Tex Sex involved with the Lost Boys Fishing Lodge?

5. Describe Cleopatra Highbourne.

6. What happens when the wind starts blowing through the tree house in Chapter 9?

7. What does Tully have to give Hector as a bribe to get access to the lighthouse in Tulum?

8. Why does Willie Singer have such a hard time leaving Hawaii?

9. What does the reappearance of the Lucretia off the coast of San Pedro make Tully start thinking about?

10. What is the connection between Tully and Donna Kay Dunbar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is foreshadowing used in nearly every chapter of the novel? Is this literary device overused by Buffet? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the themes of journeys and transitions in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Buffet's use of both traditional and non-traditional religion in A Salty Piece of Land.

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