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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 81 - 160).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Camino's first reaction to the news of her father's death?
(a) She calls her sister to tell her about it.
(b) She refuses to believe it.
(c) She calls her mother to tell her about it.
(d) She cries on the floor of the airport.

3. Where does Yahaira's Mami work?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A law office.
(c) A spa.
(d) Wall Street.

4. What kind of "poor" does Camino think of herself as?
(a) The poor of a motherless child.
(b) The poor of a healer's daughter.
(c) The poor of a Catholic's daughter.
(d) The poor of an American sponsorship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of family does Yahaira's girlfriend come from?

2. What did Camino learn when she was young about how to talk of the dying?

3. What does Camino want to do for a career?

4. Where did Papi live most of the year?

5. Why does Yahaira want to go to a place that is close to the plane crash site?

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