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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 Yahaira compare the tension in her house with Mami to?

3. When did Papi finally call Yahaira the last summer he had been in the Dominican Republic?

4. What does Yahaira wonder if Papi would have been upset about at his wake?

5. When and where did Tia once teach Camino how to dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What background does Mami tell Yahaira about her marriage to Papi?

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Yahaira begin to feel uncomfortable at the Johnsons' house in Part III?

7. When does Papi finally call Yahaira during his last summer trip to the Dominican Republic?

8. How does Yahaira get a plane ticket to go to the Dominican Republic?

9. What does Yahaira decide to do regarding Camino's friend request, and what does she actually do?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining how the main female characters in this novel all come together to exhibit both their collective and individual strength at the end of the book.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay discussing the process of discovery Yahaira experiences in realizing that she has romantic feelings for Dre.

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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