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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 the biker couple purchase at the flea market where Tully buys the painting?

2. Who is Cleopatra looking for when she comes ashore at the beach in Tulum?

3. Where did Tully first see the Heart of the Andes?

4. Where does Dawn go to college?

5. Where did Tully leave Lister's conch?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the story of Grandma Ghost?

9. How does Tully come to meet Cleopatra Highbourne?

10. What is the unusual motif for the party that Tully attends with Dawn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of second chances used throughout the novel with several different characters.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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