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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 327 - 417).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What upsets Zoila when she finds out what Papi has written in his will about his burial?
(a) He wants to be buried in the Dominican Republic.
(b) He wants to be cremated.
(c) He wants a gold casket.
(d) He wants to be buried next to his infant daughter who died days after her birth.

2. How old is Camino when Papi dies?
(a) 20.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 32.

3. What is one of Papi's favorites that Camino makes for his arrival in Part I?
(a) Sancocho.
(b) Chicken soup.
(c) Pita bread.
(d) Rice and beans.

4. What neighborhood does Yahaira live in with Mami?
(a) Queens.
(b) Fort Greene.
(c) Morningside Heights.
(d) Williamsburg.

5. When did Papi finally call Yahaira the last summer he had been in the Dominican Republic?
(a) When he got an email saying she had been a no-show for a chess tournament.
(b) When he needed to send her money.
(c) When Tio Jorge told him she had been misbehaving.
(d) When Mami asked him to call her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Papi sometimes take Yahaira to play chess when she was a child?

2. What does Carline call her baby?

3. What does Yahaira wonder if Papi would have been upset about at his wake?

4. Why does Camino tell Yahaira she does not want to show Yahaira the beach?

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

(see the answer key)

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