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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 the name of Tully's horse?

2. Archie Mercer opened ___________ a few blocks from Disney World.

3. What does Archie call Ix-Nay?

4. How much was stolen from Tully's pocket while he slept on the beach at Tulum?

5. Who does Ix-Nay have a date with in San Pedro?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the unusual business that Archie Mercer had in Orlando?

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

4. Why was the Hallicraft S-40B so important to Tully?

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

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

7. How do Bucky Norman and Kirk Patterson meet each other?

8. What is the story of Grandma Ghost?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the motif of returning a sailor home used throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the women in Tully's life and the impact each of them had on him.

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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