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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 241 - 326).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason Yahaira thinks she wants to meet Camino?
(a) She might have advice about how to apply to college.
(b) She might have answers about Yahaira's own mother.
(c) She might feel like a piece of Papi.
(d) She might be able to help Yahaira with her Spanish.

2. What is something no one knows and probably would not believe, according to Yahaira?
(a) She wants to go live in the Dominican Republic.
(b) She almost asked Papi not to go the night before he got on the plane.
(c) She wants to move out of her mother's house.
(d) She had a dream Papi's car would crash.

3. What impulse does Yahaira have when Mami leaves for work in Part II for the first time since Papi's death?
(a) To buy things online.
(b) To start a fire.
(c) To run away from home.
(d) To call her back and ask her not to leave.

4. What does Yahaira compare the tension in her house with Mami to?
(a) A fox.
(b) A thief.
(c) A winged monster.
(d) A worm.

5. What does Yahaira's girlfriend call her?
(a) Blanca.
(b) Mada.
(c) Yaya.
(d) Bella.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word or words does Mami use to describe what Tio Jorge was to Papi?

2. How did Papi help Carline?

3. Who reminds Yahaira most of Papi at Papi's wake?

4. What does Yahaira want to call her mother's family members who come asking for money immediately after Papi's death?

5. How much money does the airline offer Yahaira's family for compensation for Papi's death?

(see the answer key)

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