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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 308-374.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months after adopting Maya had Maya's mother discovered she was pregnant?
(a) 3.
(b) 16.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

2. What sound does Grace hear coming from all four parents present in the room when Grace and Maya meet for the first time?
(a) The sound of quiet squealing.
(b) The sound of sniffles.
(c) The sound of whispering.
(d) The sound of popcorn being eaten.

3. How does Grace react when Rafe guesses correctly that she is "worried that the adoptive parents [she] chose for Peach are going to split up"? (186)
(a) She runs out of the room.
(b) She starts to cry.
(c) She punches him playfully.
(d) She stares at him in awe.

4. How many different times has Joaquin been asked to leave a foster home for one reason or another?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 17.
(d) 11.

5. When Grace texts Joaquin to tell him the location of their meeting has changed, where does she tell him to go instead of the coffee shop?
(a) Joaquin's house.
(b) Maya's house.
(c) The school cafeteria.
(d) Grace's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. What action of Joaquin's first alerts his sisters to the fact that something is wrong the day of their scheduled visit to their biological birth mother's last known address?

3. The night Lauren asks Maya about their parents' possible divorce, what thought keeps Maya awake all night?

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

5. For what transgression does Maya punish Claire repeatedly, leading to the couple's break-up?

(see the answer key)

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