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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What neighborhood does Yahaira live in with Mami?
(a) Queens.
(b) Morningside Heights.
(c) Williamsburg.
(d) Fort Greene.

3. What is Tia's theory about when bad news is coming?
(a) There will be larger waves at sea.
(b) The Saints will try to warn you.
(c) Rain will start.
(d) The dogs will start barking.

4. 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 had a dream Papi's car would crash.
(c) She wants to move out of her mother's house.
(d) She wants to go live in the Dominican Republic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yahaira describe her feelings about chess?

2. What did Papi tell Yahaira when she quit playing chess?

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

4. What did Camino learn when she was young about how to talk of the dying?

5. Who appoints herself the general of logistics when Zoila's family comes to visit after Papi's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the one humane memory Camino has of El Cero from the past?

2. How does Yahaira feel about the Dominican Republic?

3. What is the only thing about Dre that gets on Yahaira's nerves?

4. Why is Camino so afraid of El Cero?

5. When does Camino feel like an orphan for the first time?

6. What does Yahaira learn about Papi about a year before his death?

7. How did Yahaira feel about chess?

8. What is Papi's reaction when Camino tells him she wants to be a doctor and to study at Columbia University?

9. Who comforts Yahaira when many family members are over the house to sympathize with Yahaira and Mami, and how does Yahaira think this person feels?

10. How does Mami handle the romantic relationship between Yahaira and Dre?

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