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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it say on the form Gloria does not understand?
(a) Immediate Release Form.
(b) Involuntary Departure.
(c) Citizenship Approval.
(d) Voluntary Departure.

2. What does Ana tell Jeanette when she asks about her mother?
(a) She says Ana's mother asked her to watch Ana until she gets home.
(b) She says her mother has been taken by ICE.
(c) She says her mother is in the hospital.
(d) She says her mother has been killed.

3. What does Jeanette see outside her window at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) A car accident.
(b) A fight between neighbors.
(c) Flashing police lights.
(d) Her boyfriend.

4. To whom is Carmen speaking in the preface of Of Women and Salt?
(a) Her daughter, Jeanette.
(b) Her granddaughter, Jeanette.
(c) Her aunt, Jeanette.
(d) Her mother, Jeanette.

5. What does Jeanette do regarding Ana at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) She calls the police.
(b) She sends her back home alone.
(c) She asks Carmen to take care of her.
(d) She files adoption papers.

6. Who wrote Of Women and Salt?
(a) Gloria Marquez.
(b) Gina Gabrielle.
(c) Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
(d) Gabriela Garcia.

7. What does a man in an office tell Gloria will happen if she signs the paper she does not understand?
(a) She will stay longer.
(b) She will get out sooner.
(c) She will be allowed to start a new life in Texas.
(d) She will be sent back to her home in Miami.

8. Where does Maria Isabel work in Chapter 1?
(a) A rich woman's house.
(b) A sewing factory.
(c) A farm.
(d) A cigar factory.

9. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) Nothing Can Stop You Now.
(b) Everything is Holding You Now.
(c) Nobody Can Help You Now.
(d) Everyone is Holding You Back.

10. What does Gloria write to Ana with a paperclip while in detention?
(a) I love you.
(b) Please come.
(c) We are force.
(d) I am sorry.

11. How long has Jeanette been sober in Chapter 2?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 6 weeks.

12. With whom do Maria and Antonio live after they get married?
(a) Antonio's mother and sister.
(b) Antonio's brother and sister-in-law.
(c) Maria's grandmother.
(d) Maria's sister and brother-in-law.

13. What is the name of the man Jeanette is being intimate with at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Jameson.

14. What drug does Jeanette try for the first time at the club in Chapter 4?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Weed.
(d) Cocaine.

15. What type of bird does Gloria picture her daughter flying in through the window?
(a) Burrowing parakeet.
(b) Turkey vulture.
(c) Hoatzin chick.
(d) Bald eagle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does CFI stand for?

2. Where is Gloria at the start of Chapter 3?

3. What does Gloria think of as "a constant calculation of what-if...I gave up" (61)?

4. What happened to Gloria's brother six months after Ana was born?

5. What is the first gift Antonio leaves on Maria's desk in Chapter 1?

(see the answer keys)

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