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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 do Tully and Dawn toast to with champagne?

2. What is the name of the woman who turns Tex Sex into a star?

3. What are Tully and Donna Kay drinking as they talk in the tree house?

4. What was Tully's good luck charm?

5. What is Dawn's friend's name at the resort in San Pedro?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tully come to meet Cleopatra Highbourne?

2. What is the story of Grandma Ghost?

3. Who is Dr. Destin Walker?

4. What is the atmosphere like at Reynaldo's resort in San Pedro?

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

6. What are some of the things that happen on the trip to Belize that reminds Tully of his favorite movie, The Man Who Would Be King?

7. How did Cleopatra meet the great love of her life?

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

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

10. Why does Tully ask Willie Singer to help him find the Fresnel lens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Buffet weaves literary works and movie references into the novel to help illuminate themes. Use specific examples.

Essay Topic 3

From the names of characters and places to outlandish events, how is A Salty Piece of Land a parody in some ways?

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