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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Claire about Maya's mom checking into rehab?
(a) Lauren.
(b) Rafe.
(c) Maya.
(d) Joaquin.

2. When Mark and Linda ask Joaquin for the second time about his possible adoption, what is his reply?
(a) He says he is leaning toward the adoption.
(b) He says he feels disloyal to his biological parents.
(c) He says he has decided that he does want them to adopt him.
(d) He says he is still thinking.

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

4. In what city does Maya's mom enter a rehab facility for her alcoholism?
(a) Palm Beach.
(b) New York City.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Palm Springs.

5. What image keeps bringing on Maya's "terrible feelings pushing their way past her heart and into her throat, choking her" (113)?
(a) The image of infant Joaquin waiting for a family.
(b) The image of Claire kissing another girl.
(c) The image of the bruises on Joaquin's back.
(d) The image of Joaquin's older foster brother's tattoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joaquin regret telling Maya and Grace once he gets home from meeting up with them?

2. Even before meeting his biological sisters, Joaquin had known that they would both be what?

3. What reason is given for Joaquin's long delay in writing back to Maya after she contacts him for the first time?

4. What does Rafe say about his relationship with his sister?

5. What is NOT one of the activities Joaquin lists among the things he has learned from certain foster siblings and parents over the years?

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