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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 161 - 240).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tia tell Camino about mud?
(a) Try to learn to love it.
(b) Not to let it bother her.
(c) Try to find a detergent to take it out of clothes.
(d) Not to let it stain her.

2. What do Tia and Camino eat for breakfast?
(a) Cereal.
(b) Rice.
(c) Coffee and bread.
(d) Bananas.

3. What does Tia say she will come back to help Carline with after the birth?
(a) Nursing.
(b) Changing diapers.
(c) Singing lullabies.
(d) Swaddling.

4. What is Tia's theory about when bad news is coming?
(a) The dogs will start barking.
(b) The Saints will try to warn you.
(c) There will be larger waves at sea.
(d) Rain will start.

5. What did Camino learn when she was young about how to talk of the dying?
(a) To talk of the dying in the same breath as talking about flowers.
(b) To talk of the dying as if they have a long time left to be young.
(c) Not to talk of them as if they are already dead.
(d) Never to talk of the dying in the same breath as talking about money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tia tell Camino about her sister in New York City?

2. What did Papi sometimes call Yahaira?

3. What is Yahaira's last name?

4. Why does Carline not go to the hospital to have her baby?

5. What chess piece did Yahaira used to give up when she was a little girl?

(see the answer key)

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