1. When Grace realizes that she is pregnant, she looks up the size of the baby on Google. Her baby is the size of what object?
(a) A peach.
(b) A walnut.
(c) A dime.
(d) A cantaloupe.

2. What tune does the doorbell at Maya's house play?
(a) Chopsticks.
(b) That's Amore.
(c) Ode to Joy.
(d) Old Paint.

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?
(a) $8,600.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $36,000.
(d) $24,500.

4. At what location do Joaquin's summoned people appear within his dream?
(a) Across the railroad tracks.
(b) High on a cliff.
(c) On the edge of the ocean.
(d) On the other side of a bridge.

5. How many minutes away from Maya's house is Grace's house?
(a) 40 minutes.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 20 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maya thinks that everything seems a certain way "at three a.m." (26). How does she think everything seems at that hour, in comparison to other hours of the day?

2. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care at what age?

3. When Joaquin can finally speak after fleeing his first meeting with Ana, what place does he say the office had too closely resembled?

4. What dreams in her past does Grace liken to what lunch will be like now that her place in the school is so uncertain?

5. The narrator states that after meeting Joaquin, Maya has a hard time doing what?

(see the answer key)

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