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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 3-72.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the night Maya's parents tell her about Grace, she says that it has been how long since her parents have been home together and not "at each other's throats" (23)?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Days.
(c) Months.
(d) Years.

2. What does Grace say that both Max and his father do when they are angry?
(a) They shake.
(b) They lower their voices.
(c) They flare their nostrils.
(d) They yell.

3. How does Max feel about his father?
(a) Max fears his father.
(b) Max does not understand his father.
(c) Max hates his father.
(d) Max idolizes his father.

4. To what college had Grace been planning to apply before becoming pregnant?
(a) NYU.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Berkeley.

5. What do Max's parents say are the plans for his future that conflict with being a teenage father?
(a) He plans to be a college professor.
(b) He plans to attend UCLA.
(c) He plans to become a doctor.
(d) He plans to attend Stanford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grace end up doing on homecoming night?

2. When Maya's parents tell her about Grace, what do they say is the relationship between the two girls?

3. When the reader first meets Joaquin, for how long has he lived with his current foster parents, Mark and Linda?

4. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care by whom?

5. 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?

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