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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Papi lose the tip of one finger?
(a) His machete slipped cutting a mango.
(b) Someone cut if off after a card game.
(c) He slammed his finger in a car door.
(d) A dog bit him.

2. How did Camino afford to go to a private school?
(a) Papi had paid just enough for tuition each quarter.
(b) She had raised the money for herself through bake sales.
(c) She had an inheritance from her mother's family.
(d) She had a mysterious benefactor who paid for it.

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

4. What does Yahaira's girlfriend have a particular talent for?
(a) Growing plants.
(b) Chess.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Dance.

5. What phrase does Yahaira keep repeating about her mother in Part II?
(a) Mami is a good woman, a good woman.
(b) Mami is a liar.
(c) Mami needs help.
(d) Mami is a saint.

6. Who does Yahaira let hold her for the first time since Papi died?
(a) Camino.
(b) Dr. Johnson.
(c) Dre.
(d) Tio Jorge.

7. What was Papi's flight number?
(a) 711.
(b) 1112.
(c) 1043.
(d) 2076.

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

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

10. How did Papi help Carline?
(a) In finding her a good daycare.
(b) In assisting her father find help for his alcoholism.
(c) In assisting her pay her parking ticket fees.
(d) In getting her current good job.

11. What does Camino remember Papi doing when she told him she wanted to be a doctor and attend Columbia University?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Pretending he did not hear her.
(c) Becoming Angry.
(d) Telling her she needed to ask her mother to pay for college for her.

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

13. 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.

14. When did Papi always used to come back to New York from the Dominican Republic?
(a) Christmas.
(b) September, right before Yahaira's birthday.
(c) Easter.
(d) October, right before Zoila's birthday.

15. Who is Camino's best friend?
(a) Nellie.
(b) Verdada.
(c) Marina.
(d) Carline.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the single love of Camino's life?

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

3. What does the lady at the ice cream shop do for Carline and Camino?

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

5. What is Yahaira's last name?

(see the answer keys)

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