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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 73-153.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had one set of Joaquin's foster parents done to discourage him from being left-handed?
(a) They had tied his left hand behind his back.
(b) They had attached a string to his left hand as a reminder to use his right hand.
(c) They had taped his left hand shut.
(d) They had glued the fingers of his left hand together.

2. How old had Joaquin been when he was placed on a psychiatric hold in the mental hospital?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

3. For how long has Joaquin been seeing Ana in therapy at the time he breaks up with Birdie?
(a) 12 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 6 months.

4. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care at what age?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. Due to his extreme discomfort with the environment of Ana's office, where do the two begin to meet instead?
(a) A juice bar.
(b) A park.
(c) A diner.
(d) A bookstore.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Max's parents say are the plans for his future that conflict with being a teenage father?

3. What does Joaquin feel that he always has to say when people start speaking to him in Spanish?

4. What is Joaquin's reason for believing he is part Mexican?

5. What is NOT something about Birdie that Joaquin misses, now that they have broken up?

(see the answer key)

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