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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 one thing Jeanette knows about the woman who lives across the street from her?

2. What were Jeanette and her friend looking for when they went to the gas station?

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

4. How does Ana say she and her mother came to the U.S. the year before?

5. What is the title of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Antonio's final moments in Chapter 1.

2. Why did Maria and her mother hide in their house for four days? What did Maria find when she finally left?

3. What does Antonio read about cigar factory workers in La Aurora at the start of Chapter 1? What does Antonio say this means?

4. When Gloria worries about returning to El Salvador, why does she wonder if her fears would be considered "credible" (63)?

5. What does Mario cry about over the phone with Jeanette? What does she keep a secret about their relationship?

6. What is the maximum amount of time children are supposed to be detained for? How is the Obama administration trying to change that according to Chapter 3?

7. Why does Johnson not want to call the cops when they find the dead body? What do they do after?

8. Where is Jeanette at the start of Chapter 4? Who is the man she with and what do they find?

9. What does Jeanette's mother think about Ana staying with her? What does she think Jeanette should do?

10. Why did a detainee hide food for her daughter? What happened as a result?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay examining the final story in Of Women and Salt. How did this story fit into the overall theme of the novel? Why do you think the author chose this as the final story?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the author of Of Women and Salt. Who is she? What else has she written? How is Of Women and Salt similar or different from her other works?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one story from Of Women and Salt and discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story?

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