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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 did Papi own on Dyckman Street?

2. Who is Camino most afraid of?

3. What does Camino hope she can do for herself and Tia when she becomes a professional?

4. What game does Yahaira excel at?

5. What does Yahaira's girlfriend have a particular talent for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yahaira stop playing chess?

2. How does Camino's work with Tia influence her decision to become a doctor?

3. Why does Yahaira want to go to the site of the plane crash?

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

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

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

7. Why was Yahaira so resentful towards Papi during the last summer he was in the Dominican Republic?

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What do you think Vira Lata symbolizes for Camino at different points throughout this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why and how does Papi's death so completely jeopardize Camino's and Tia's security, finances, and standard of living in the Dominican Republic? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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