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

2. What does Joaquin feel that he always has to say when people start speaking to him in Spanish?
(a) Please repeat.
(b) Speak English.
(c) No espanol.
(d) Sorry.

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

4. When Grace first begins thinking about the Homecoming Dance, for how long has she been dating Max?
(a) Just over a year.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) Just over two years.

5. What is Grace's first class of the day when she returns to school for the first time after Peach's birth?
(a) Biology.
(b) Math.
(c) English.
(d) Home Economics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT on the list of things Maya means to do in the two years or so?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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