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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 word has two-year-old Elena just learned at the start of Chapter 10?

2. Who does Jeanette bring to dinner, to Carmen's dismay in Chapter 6?

3. How old is Ana at the start of Chapter 7?

4. Why does Jeanette leave the dinner party early in Chapter 6?

5. From whose point of view is Chapter 9, "People Like That," written?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Nancy treat Ana and Gloria when they first started working for her?

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

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

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

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

7. In what ways does Jeanette try to prove to Mario that she is not like other girls in Chapter 11?

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

9. When did Jeanette tell her mother that her father abused her? How did Carmen feel about the fact that Jeanette did not tell her right away?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay examining the book Les Miserables as a symbol in Of Women and Salt. In what stories and scenes does the book appear? What is the context? How does the book develop the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Choose a character and discuss their role in creating conflict in the story.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of secrets within Of Women and Salt. Discuss the secrets some of the characters kept and examine why they kept these secrets.

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