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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of music did Papi used to love?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Salsa.
(c) Hip hop.
(d) Bachata.

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

6. Who is Camino's and Tia's neighbor?
(a) Romina.
(b) Don Mateo.
(c) Zoila.
(d) Franco.

7. What did Papi once tell Yahaira about forfeiting a chess game?
(a) Forfeit smiling and make the opponent think she let him win.
(b) Forfeit with her eyes closed.
(c) Never forfeit.
(d) Forfeit with her head down.

8. What makes Camino sick about where she is when she finds out her father's remains have been found?
(a) She is at the cemetery.
(b) She is looking at the ocean Papi died in.
(c) She is at the beach, which she loves, but she is with El Cero, who she hates.
(d) She is at the house Papi used to love.

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

10. Who do Tia and Camino visit together in Part I, early in the morning?
(a) El Cero.
(b) The woman with cancer.
(c) Camino's mother.
(d) Camino's grandmother.

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

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

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

14. Who appoints herself the general of logistics when Zoila's family comes to visit after Papi's death?
(a) Tia Mabel.
(b) Tia Julia.
(c) Tia Malina.
(d) Tia Jennie.

15. Who is Camino most afraid of?
(a) El Cero.
(b) Papi.
(c) Tia Solano.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Papi die?

2. How did Papi help Carline?

3. What place does Camino love the most in her hometown?

4. What is the name of the stray dog that hangs around Camino?

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

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