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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 Carmen do when she sees Mario pull an orange cylinder from his pocket?

2. Who helps Gloria find her job in Irapuato when they first get to Mexico?

3. Why are Jeanette and her parents huddled in the bathroom in the memory she has in Chapter 11?

4. What does Carmen see in her neighbor's driveway after she goes to investigate the strange growl she hears?

5. Where does Lila tell Carmen she will be going soon for three weeks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Reinaldo? How does he help Maydelis and Jeanette in Chapter 8?

2. Describe Isabel's husband in Chapter 11?

3. What did Jeanette learn from Carmen about why Cubans might hide their possessions within their walls?

4. Why did Daniel leave Dolores and the children at the start of Chapter 10? How did she feel about his departure?

5. Why did Dolores hide money in the mattress and hide her Les Miserables book in the walls in Chapter 10?

6. How did Jeanette and Mario meet? Why did he move in with her?

7. Why does Carmen want everything to be especially perfect this Thanksgiving?

8. Why did Ana realize later that she could have gotten away with taking the money Nancy hid in the floorboard to pay for treatment?

9. Why does Carmen want Jeanette to visit home so badly in Chapter 11? What does Jeanette say to Carmen about her relationship with Julio? How does Carmen respond?

10. Describe Isabel who comes to the department store where Jeanette works? How does she remind Jeanette of Carmen?

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 analyzing the symbolic significance economic status has in Of Women and Salt. Who is wealthy? Who is poor? How does economic status directly and indirectly impact the characters?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one story from Of Women and Salt and examine the use of dialogue versus the use of description. Look at how each is used in the novel and what makes these uses effective or ineffective.

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