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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Yahaira's Mami say in the grief group session?
2. Why does Yahaira want to go to a place that is close to the plane crash site?
3. What did Papi once tell Yahaira about forfeiting a chess game?
4. What kind of "poor" does Camino think of herself as?
5. What does Yahaira do at the Johnson's house while she waits for Dre to come home?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Tia raise Camino?
2. What is the one humane memory Camino has of El Cero from the past?
3. 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?
4. Why was Yahaira so resentful towards Papi during the last summer he was in the Dominican Republic?
5. What upsets Mami about Papi's wishes for his funeral?
6. What is Papi's reaction when Camino tells him she wants to be a doctor and to study at Columbia University?
7. How does Camino's work with Tia influence her decision to become a doctor?
8. What does Papi tell Yahaira right before he leaves for the flight that he dies on?
9. When does Camino feel like an orphan for the first time?
10. What does Yahaira do to try to get her mother back on her feet in the haze of Mami's grief in Part II?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does the game of chess mean to Yahaira, and why does she stop playing chess abruptly in the year before Papi dies? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
How and when does Acevedo employ the use of suspense in this novel to hold the reader's attention and/or deepen the reader's understanding of a character(s)? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How does Yahaira feel when she first finds out about Camino, and how and when do her feelings begin to shift and change afterwards? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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