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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 154-226.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tune does the doorbell at Maya's house play?
(a) That's Amore.
(b) Chopsticks.
(c) Old Paint.
(d) Ode to Joy.

2. At what location do Joaquin's summoned people appear within his dream?
(a) High on a cliff.
(b) On the other side of a bridge.
(c) Across the railroad tracks.
(d) On the edge of the ocean.

3. What news does Joaquin deliver at the diner that causes Maya to choke on her cookie?
(a) He says that he and Birdie are broken up.
(b) He says that he has located his biological father.
(c) He says that he has thought about hurting himself.
(d) He says that Mark and Linda want to adopt him.

4. What is NOT something about Birdie that Joaquin misses, now that they have broken up?
(a) Her laugh.
(b) Her sarcastic wit.
(c) The smell of her skin.
(d) Her furious anger whenever someone said something she disagreed with.

5. What subjects are featured in the majority of the posters hanging on Maya's bedroom walls?
(a) Bands.
(b) Movies.
(c) Motocross riders.
(d) Edward Gorey drawings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old had Joaquin been when he was placed on a psychiatric hold in the mental hospital?

3. How many minutes away from Maya's house is Grace's house?

4. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care at what age?

5. Which of Maya's family members is said at the beginning of a chapter to have "moved out on Sunday morning" (154)?

(see the answer key)

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