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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 154-226.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grace's ex-boyfriend Max end up doing on homecoming night?
(a) Filing custody papers.
(b) Shopping for baby supplies.
(c) Being crowned homecoming king at the dance.
(d) Watching his daughter's birth.

2. What is NOT among the list of names Grace had been called by other students during her time attending high school while pregnant?
(a) Fatty.
(b) Baby Mama.
(c) Shamu.
(d) Slut.

3. Why does Joaquin hate iced tea?
(a) Because it is much too bitter.
(b) Because it is cloyingly sweet.
(c) Because it reminds him of the foster mother who questioned whether he knew what iced tea was.
(d) Because he does not like to eat leaves or twigs.

4. What is NOT on the list of things Maya means to do in the two years or so?
(a) Go to New York.
(b) Finding her biological mother.
(c) Graduate from high school.
(d) Live with Claire.

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 the bruises on Joaquin's back.
(b) The image of Joaquin's older foster brother's tattoo.
(c) The image of infant Joaquin waiting for a family.
(d) The image of Claire kissing another girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subjects are featured in the majority of the posters hanging on Maya's bedroom walls?

2. What tune does the doorbell at Maya's house play?

3. What activity does Grace's dad try to get Grace to do with him during Grace's period of depression?

4. When Ana asks Joaquin if he will tell Maya and Grace about his psychiatric episode, what is his reply?

5. What does Grace say that both Max and his father do when they are angry?

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