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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 does Joaquin do with the "Tips for Phasing Out of Foster Care" (282) he receives from a staff member at his school?
(a) He gives it to Mark and Linda.
(b) He puts it through the shredder at Maya's house.
(c) He throws it in a nearby trash can.
(d) He puts it back into the array of other pamphlets at school the next day.

2. What does Joaquin feel that he always has to say when people start speaking to him in Spanish?
(a) Speak English.
(b) Please repeat.
(c) Sorry.
(d) No espanol.

3. For how long has Joaquin been seeing Ana in therapy at the time he breaks up with Birdie?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 12 months.
(d) 6 months.

4. The narrator states that after meeting Joaquin, Maya has a hard time doing what?
(a) Focusing.
(b) Smiling.
(c) Eating.
(d) Sleeping.

5. What compliment does Rafe give to Grace when he is about to kiss her?
(a) He tells her that she is smart.
(b) He tells her that she is cute.
(c) He tells her that she is a good listener.
(d) He tells her that she is kind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Maya's mother go directly from the hospital?

2. Next to whom does Grace sit in the class during which she says everything "crumbles into oblivion" (101) her first day back at school?

3. How much more money on average does Joaquin say it takes in adoption fees to adopt a white baby, versus a baby of color?

4. How do Maya and Joaquin find out about Grace's pregnancy and about Peach?

5. During the period when Grace watches television all day instead of studying, what people is she speaking of when she thinks that "those people's problems always seemed much worse, yet much more easily solvable, than her own" (181)?

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