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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yahaira's Mami say in the grief group session?
(a) She feels like Papi is not yet dead.
(b) She is very angry at the airline.
(c) She feels like she loses Papi again every morning when she wakes up.
(d) She is terrified of losing Yahaira now.

2. Who invites Yahaira and her mother to grief counseling?
(a) Yahaira's grandmother.
(b) Yahaira's principal.
(c) The neighborhood association.
(d) Yahaira's best friend.

3. 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 buried next to his infant daughter who died days after her birth.
(c) He wants to be cremated.
(d) He wants a gold casket.

4. What did Papi own on Dyckman Street?
(a) A laundromat.
(b) A billiards.
(c) A check-cashing facility.
(d) A pizza parlour.

5. What is Yahaira's girlfriend's nickname?
(a) Aiya.
(b) Dre.
(c) Drew.
(d) Andie.

6. What does the lady at the ice cream shop do for Carline and Camino?
(a) Gives them a job.
(b) Gives them popcorn.
(c) Gives them money.
(d) Gives them free ice cream.

7. What is the name of the stray dog that hangs around Camino?
(a) Lanana.
(b) Harvey.
(c) Vira Lata.
(d) Strata.

8. What is Yahaira's first language?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish.
(d) English.

9. What did Papi tell Yahaira when she quit playing chess?
(a) She will not get an allowance any longer.
(b) She will have to find a new sport.
(c) She broke his heart.
(d) She will not be able to go to college.

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

11. What does Camino say she knows too much of in Part I?
(a) Mud.
(b) Money.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Death.

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

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

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

15. What did Camino learn when she was young about how to talk of the dying?
(a) Never to talk of the dying in the same breath as talking about money.
(b) Not to talk of them as if they are already dead.
(c) To talk of the dying in the same breath as talking about flowers.
(d) To talk of the dying as if they have a long time left to be young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What chess piece did Yahaira used to give up when she was a little girl?

2. What is something no one knows and probably would not believe, according to Yahaira?

3. What does Yahaira think about her father's burial wishes?

4. When did Papi always used to come back to New York from the Dominican Republic?

5. Where does Camino want to go to college someday?

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