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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 does Jeanette leave the dinner party early in Chapter 6?
2. What does Carmen see in her neighbor's driveway after she goes to investigate the strange growl she hears?
3. What does Maydelis leave out when she tells Jeanette about her evening with El Aleman?
4. Who makes Jeanette feel like she is "some kind of savior" (11)?
5. What radio station does Daniel listen to in Chapter 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Reinaldo? How does he help Maydelis and Jeanette in Chapter 8?
2. What did Jeanette learn from Carmen about why Cubans might hide their possessions within their walls?
3. How does Mario make extra money in Chapter 11?
4. When Dolores discovers the missing copy of Les Miserables who does she blame? What does she say about the book? What assumption does Jeanette realize she made about Cubans?
5. Why did Daniel leave Dolores and the children at the start of Chapter 10? How did she feel about his departure?
6. Why did Dolores hide money in the mattress and hide her Les Miserables book in the walls in Chapter 10?
7. How did Dolores kill Daniel? Who knew about it but never said anything?
8. Who is Yosmany? How do Jeanette's views of him differ from Dolores and Maydelis?
9. Why did Ana realize later that she could have gotten away with taking the money Nancy hid in the floorboard to pay for treatment?
10. In what ways does Jeanette try to prove to Mario that she is not like other girls in Chapter 11?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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?
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