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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yahaira's girlfriend call her?

2. What upsets Zoila when she finds out what Papi has written in his will about his burial?

3. Where does Yahaira's Mami work?

4. How old is Camino when Papi dies?

5. Where does Tia hold a private prayer for Papi?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Camino decide not to tell Tia about El Cero's veiled threats and actions?

2. How does Yahaira feel about the Dominican Republic?

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

4. What does El Cero tell Camino about what she supposedly owes him in Part II?

5. What does Yahaira mostly remember from when she is given the news about her father's death?

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. When is the first time Yahaira wonders if Mami knows Papi's secret about having another wife?

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