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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 is Hector listening to in the guardhouse when Tully and Cleopatra come to bribe him to get to the lighthouse?

2. Who is the patron saint of those besieged by lightning?

3. Who painted Heart of the Andes?

4. What does Tully hand to Cleopatra as the Lucretia sails to Punta Margarita from Tulum?

5. What is the first kind of fish Tully catches when he is training to be a guide?

Short Essay Questions

1. What challenge does Cleopatra give to Tully before she will take him back to Punta Margarita?

2. What are the two pieces of art that Tully takes with him on his trip aboard the Caribbean Soul?

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

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

5. What does Ix-Nay tell Tully about the fishing spot called Quiet Time?

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

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

8. What surprising thing does Cleopatra do after Tully successfully guides the dinghy through the Mayan cut?

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

10. Who are the Stilton twins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the thematic importance of each of the following characters: Cleopatra Highbourne, Dawn Barston, and Bucky Norman.

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of lights and lighthouses to the plot and themes of A Salty Piece of Land?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the symbolic significance of the Fresnel lens. What are the allegorical and thematic implications of Willie Singer being the one to bring it to Tully?

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