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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yahaira tell the check-in agent at the desk at the airport when it seems he might not let her fly alone?
(a) Her father was a passenger on Flight 1112 and they are flying his body out that day.
(b) She is going to the Dominican Republic to try to save her Tia.
(c) She is going to the Dominican Republic to study to be a doctor.
(d) She is going to the Dominican Republic to meet her sister for the first time.

2. What does Yahaira wonder if Papi would have been upset about at his wake?
(a) Whether Yahaira is not going to college.
(b) Whether Yahaira is going to the Dominican Republic without telling Mami.
(c) Whether Camino asked Yahaira for money.
(d) Whether Wilson asked for money from them.

3. What seems easiest to Camino in terms of her burgeoning relationship with her sister in Part IV?
(a) To ask Yahaira to teach her how to play chess to ingratiate herself to her.
(b) Not to get too attached and not to give her a reason to get attached to Camino either.
(c) To try to figure out which one of them Papi loved better.
(d) To try to get to know Yahaira's Mami.

4. How does El Cero tell Camino she was swimming as he was watching her in Part IV?
(a) As if she had never swum before.
(b) Very slowly.
(c) As if demons were chasing with torches behind her.
(d) Very well.

5. Where does Camino leave the money Yahaira wires her?
(a) She gives it to Carline.
(b) In the shed.
(c) Taped to Papi's picture on TIa's altar.
(d) Under her mattress.

6. Who did Yahaira play at chess the last time she had ever played chess, as she remembers in Part III?
(a) Papi.
(b) Mami.
(c) Camino.
(d) Manny.

7. What does Camino think Carline's baby looks like when he is born?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A doll.
(c) A fox.
(d) A wrinkled fruit from a shaken tree.

8. How does Yahaira respond to Camino's first message?
(a) She does not reply.
(b) She tells Camino she does not want to speak with her again.
(c) She tells her she thinks they should video chat.
(d) She tells Camino she needs Camino to come to New York to visit her.

9. What did Papi surprise Yahaira with one night at his billiards?
(a) A cake and a glass of coke with a splash of rum.
(b) A new set of Shakespeare books.
(c) A burger and a beer.
(d) A new chess set.

10. What food had Yahaira never had until eating dinner at the Johnsons' house?
(a) Burgers.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Meatloaf.

11. Who is the only person Yahaira tells about speaking with Camino online?
(a) Dre.
(b) Tio Carmina.
(c) Tio Jorge.
(d) Mami.

12. Against whose wishes did Mami marry Papi, according to Yahaira?
(a) Her father.
(b) Camino's.
(c) Papi's sister.
(d) Papi's father.

13. What does Camino think of when she sees Yahaira's face on video chat for the first time?
(a) She has Papi's face.
(b) She looks nothing like Papi.
(c) She looks like Camino's own mother.
(d) She looks like Tia.

14. What does Mami tell Yahaira to do when she is getting upset at first learning about Camino?
(a) Breathe.
(b) Eat.
(c) Talk to Dre.
(d) Take a walk.

15. What does Yahaira compare the tension in her house with Mami to?
(a) A winged monster.
(b) A worm.
(c) A fox.
(d) A thief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does Camino think her shoes are from that Papi brought for her?

2. What does Yahaira ask Camino to do for her for her visit to the Dominican Republic?

3. What does Yahaira think Mami looks like rather than an "American-apple-pie mother" (279)?

4. What does Camino demand of Yahaira before Yahaira comes to the Dominican Republic?

5. What does Tia say to Camino when she holds Carline's baby for the first time?

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