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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 does Portenos accuse Antonio of when he reads a letter from Victor Hugo to Emilia Casanova de Villaverde?

2. What does Mario cry about when Jeanette calls him in Chapter 2?

3. What does it say on the form Gloria does not understand?

4. In Chapter 1, in what way does Maria Isabel's work impact her physically?

5. Which French author's work is read at Maria's work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Gloria at the start of Chapter 3? What noises can be heard in the middle of the night sometimes?

2. While watching a National Geographic DVD, what bird does Gloria imagine coming to her in the detention center and how?

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

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

5. What does Jeanette see from her window at the start of Chapter 2? What does she know of her neighbor?

6. Who is Don Geronimo? Why did Maria hide Antonio's gifts from him?

7. 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?

8. What does Johnson say and do when Jeanette asks him to buy her cigarettes?

9. How did Jeanette begin to compare Johson to her father while at the club after a few drinks?

10. What does Jeanette do when she sees Ana get dropped off at her house? What does she learn about Ana?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Garcia's decision to tell the story from various women's perspective. What is the impact of telling the story only from the female character's point of view? How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?

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

Write an essay analyzing the structure of Of Women and Salt. How does the structure of the novel impact your understanding of the themes and characters?

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