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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. Why was Mario kicked out of his sober living facility?

2. What does Carmen tell Jeanette none of her guests know about?

3. What is a jinetera?

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

5. Why does Mario take from his stash of OxyContin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what ways was life different for Gloria after moving to Mexico?

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

4. What does Jeanette tell Carmen her problem is after she assures Jeanette that nobody knows about her "problems" (103)?

5. How does Carmen feel about her family's conversation about Dolores and Maydelis and other family in Cuba?

6. Describe Isabel's husband in Chapter 11?

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

8. Why does Maydelis spend time with El Aleman at the start of Chapter 8? What does she hope might come of their relationship?

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

10. Why is there a Les Miserables book on the bookshelf at Dolores's house? What does Maydelis tell Jeanette about the book? Why does Jeanette take it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick a character from Of Women and Salt and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters' goals? How do the characters' goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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