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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 is all Yahaira wants in Part IV?

2. Who or what does Camino think her shoes are from that Papi brought for her?

3. What does Mami tell Yahaira when Yahaira asks Mami if she wishes Yahaira looked more like her?

4. What does Yahaira remember whispering into the phone the day Papi told her he was disappointed in her, after he had hung up?

5. Why does Yahaira think Camino might hate her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tia do to try to revive Carline's baby?

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

6. How does Yahaira learn about her sister Camino?

7. Why does Camino forcibly push El Cero away from her in Part III?

8. What does Yahaira come to understand about Papi and the way he moved between his two families?

9. Why does Mami feel especially betrayed by Papi?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

What does the settlement money from the airline for Papi's death represent for Yahaira? What does it represent to Camino? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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