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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 want to call her mother's family members who come asking for money immediately after Papi's death?

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

3. Why does Carline's boyfriend fetch Tia and Camino in Part III?

4. Why does Yahaira think Camino might hate her?

5. What does Camino think she has learned from the Saints in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mami feel especially betrayed by Papi?

2. What is wrong with Carline in Part III to make Nelson fetch Tia and Camino?

3. What is worrying Camino about planning for her father's funeral?

4. What does Yahaira leave at the shrine for Papi?

5. What does Yahaira remember about a harrowing train ride in Part III?

6. What enormous secret does Tia finally tell Camino in Part III?

7. Why does Carline tell Camino she is concerned about Camino in Part III?

8. What does Yahaira think about the behavior of some of Mami's relatives after they find out about the airline settlement money?

9. What does Tia tell Camino about her father's wife in relation to Camino's interests?

10. Why does Camino decide not to tell Carline that Yahaira is coming to visit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Camino feel towards her best friend Carline? Why does Camino seem to feel the need to protect Carline, even as Camino navigates her own grief for the loss of her father? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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