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

2. Why does Tia look worried in Part II?
(a) She thinks Camino is not really cut out to be a doctor.
(b) She thinks Papi's spirit is not at peace.
(c) Life as she and Camino knows it has ended with Papi's death.
(d) She thinks Camino is not praying hard enough.

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

4. What does Yahaira's Mami say in the grief group session?
(a) She is very angry at the airline.
(b) She feels like Papi is not yet dead.
(c) She feels like she loses Papi again every morning when she wakes up.
(d) She is terrified of losing Yahaira now.

5. What does Camino say learning mud is like?
(a) Learning how to love dirt.
(b) Learning the language of survival.
(c) Learning how to be vulnerable.
(d) Learning how to fall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yahaira think about her father's burial wishes?

2. What does Camino say she knows too much of in Part I?

3. What language does Carline's father pray in?

4. How does Papi die?

5. What does Tia say she will come back to help Carline with after the birth?

(see the answer key)

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