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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 item of clothing eventually worn by Grace on her first day back to school is said to match "the stress hives that were starting to appear on her chest and neck" (95)?
(a) Her shirt.
(b) Her scarf.
(c) Her dress.
(d) Her pajama pants.

2. When Joaquin can finally speak after fleeing his first meeting with Ana, what place does he say the office had too closely resembled?
(a) A library.
(b) Jail.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Purgatory.

3. When Ana asks Joaquin if he will tell Maya and Grace about his psychiatric episode, what is his reply?
(a) Soon.
(b) At some point.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

4. 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?
(a) More humorous.
(b) More dire.
(c) More cartoonish.
(d) More terrible.

5. What is NOT among the list of names Grace had been called by other students during her time attending high school while pregnant?
(a) Baby Mama.
(b) Shamu.
(c) Slut.
(d) Fatty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image keeps bringing on Maya's "terrible feelings pushing their way past her heart and into her throat, choking her" (113)?

2. According to Grace, in what period of her first day back at school does everything "crumble into oblivion" (101)?

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

4. What subjects are featured in the majority of the posters hanging on Maya's bedroom walls?

5. Who is ultimately deemed by the school to be responsible for the chaos that erupts on Grace's first and last day back to school?

(see the answer key)

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