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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What chess piece did Yahaira used to give up when she was a little girl?
(a) Her king.
(b) Her pawn.
(c) Her queen.
(d) Her knight.

2. How does Yahaira describe her feelings about chess?
(a) She played chess to please her mother and her girlfriend.
(b) She hated chess.
(c) She did chess, but she never loved it.
(d) She played chess to win money in tournaments.

3. Who drives Camino to the airport to collect Papi?
(a) Franco.
(b) Don Mateo.
(c) Tia.
(d) Yahaira.

4. What happens once you lift a pawn off the board, according to Yahaira?
(a) You have to give it up.
(b) You have to move it backward.
(c) You have to move it forward.
(d) You have to hide it.

5. How did Camino's mother die?
(a) Dengue fever.
(b) Drowning accident.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Heart attack.

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

7. Where did Papi live most of the year?
(a) Columbia.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) San Francisco.

8. What did Papi sometimes call Yahaira?
(a) My cafe latte.
(b) Bella negra.
(c) Farfalle.
(d) My sweetheart.

9. Why does Camino decide not to tell Tia about El Cero's menacing behavior?
(a) Tia is old and can not really help Camino fight El Cero.
(b) Tia will get angry at Camino if she tells her about El Cero.
(c) Tia might have a heart attack, because she has a weak heart, if Camino tells her about El Cero.
(d) Tia will spend all her money trying to stop El Cero.

10. Where did Camino's mother meet Papi?
(a) They met at a bar.
(b) They were set up on a blind date.
(c) They met at a dance class.
(d) They were childhood friends who reconnected at El Malecon.

11. What is Tia's name?
(a) Fertada.
(b) Mia.
(c) Roberta.
(d) Solana.

12. Who comforts Yahaira most at the family gathering for her father in Part II?
(a) Tia Julia.
(b) Tio Ramone.
(c) Tia Mabel.
(d) Tio Jorge.

13. What does Yahaira think about her father's burial wishes?
(a) She wants to bury a chess piece with him.
(b) She decides she must be there in the Dominican Republic for his funeral.
(c) She wants to get him a wooden casket.
(d) She wants him to be cremated, too.

14. Where does Tia hold a private prayer for Papi?
(a) Her boveda.
(b) Her garden.
(c) Her closet.
(d) Her church.

15. What does Yahaira think her father always travels to the Dominican Republic for?
(a) To cook in a restaurant for the summer.
(b) To find a new house for Yahaira there.
(c) Negocios.
(d) To work at the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Yahaira's girlfriend's nickname?

2. What is Tia's theory about when bad news is coming?

3. Who is Camino's and Tia's neighbor?

4. What impulse does Yahaira have when Mami leaves for work in Part II for the first time since Papi's death?

5. What upsets Zoila when she finds out what Papi has written in his will about his burial?

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