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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 Jeanette's mother think she should do about Ana?

2. What does a man in an office tell Gloria will happen if she signs the paper she does not understand?

3. Who does Jeanette call after seeing her neighbor taken away at the start of Chapter 2?

4. What do Maria and the other workers do when Antonio is escorted out of the factory?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maria Isabel feel about getting married?

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

3. Where is Jeanette at the start of Chapter 4? Who is the man she with and what do they find?

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

5. What do readers learn about Mario's father in Chapter 2?

6. 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?

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

8. What does Antonio read about cigar factory workers in La Aurora at the start of Chapter 1? What does Antonio say this means?

9. What was Jeanette's technique for trying to find someone to buy her and her friend cigarettes?

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

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

Examine how the theme of violence plays a part in the plot of Of Women and Salt.

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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