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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 227-307.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dreams in her past does Grace liken to what lunch will be like now that her place in the school is so uncertain?
(a) Dreams in which she is falling.
(b) Dreams in which she is wandering and trapped in a strange place.
(c) Dreams in which she is frozen and unable to move.
(d) Dreams in which she is aboard a quickly-descending plane.

2. When Joaquin does not want to tell Maya and Grace the real reason he broke up with Birdie, what reason does he give instead?
(a) Birdie is not good enough for him.
(b) Birdie wants to settle down already.
(c) Birdie has motivation and he has none.
(d) Birdie has baby pictures and he has none.

3. What is the truthful answer to the question Grace's mother asks her about her relationship with Rafe?
(a) They are going steady.
(b) They are friends who flirt.
(c) They are engaged.
(d) They do not like one another at all.

4. What is Grace's response when her mother asks about the boy she has been seen hanging out with?
(a) She says that she is in love with Rafe.
(b) She says that she is interested in Rafe but her interest is not returned.
(c) She says that Rafe is interested in her but his interest is not returned.
(d) She says that she and Rafe are just friends.

5. What reason is given for Joaquin's long delay in writing back to Maya after she contacts him for the first time?
(a) He is worried that his sisters will not like him.
(b) He did not have a working internet connection.
(c) He had lost the slip of paper containing her number.
(d) He had deleted her email by mistake.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of her family members does Maya stop speaking for a week when she becomes angry?

2. What is NOT a reason Maya's mother insists that she cannot have a dog?

3. What news does Joaquin deliver at the diner that causes Maya to choke on her cookie?

4. After a lengthy report of the struggles Grace has been having, the narrator states "one thing" (181), however, that she does know. What is that one thing?

5. What event does Maya say she had forgotten about due to the horrors of finding her mother bleeding on the floor?

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