1. On what day of the week do Joaquin, Grace, and Maya pledge to meet up each week?
(a) Mondays.
(b) Saturdays.
(c) Fridays.
(d) Sundays.

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

3. The narrator states that after meeting Joaquin, Maya has a hard time doing what?
(a) Focusing.
(b) Smiling.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating.

4. Who is the only member of the family who cries the day when one family members moves out permanently?
(a) Lauren.
(b) Lauren and Maya's dad.
(c) Lauren and Maya's mom.
(d) Maya.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the period when Grace watches television all day instead of studying, what people is she speaking of when she thinks that "those people's problems always seemed much worse, yet much more easily solvable, than her own" (181)?

2. In what condiment do Grace, Joaquin and Maya find they all like to dip their french fries?

3. How does Max feel about his father?

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

5. Due to his extreme discomfort with the environment of Ana's office, where do the two begin to meet instead?

(see the answer key)

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