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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 227-307.

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

2. What element of Maya's house do both Grace and Joaquin consider strange?
(a) The carpeted walls.
(b) The color of the house.
(c) The wall of family photos lining the staircase.
(d) The shabby kitchen.

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

4. When Mark and Linda wake Joaquin from a nightmare, for whom do they say he had been calling in his sleep?
(a) Lauren and Rafe.
(b) Grace and Maya.
(c) Mark and Linda.
(d) His mother and father.

5. Joaquin's favorite foster dad was a man named Rick who thought Joaquin was talented and bought him a set of what?
(a) Drafting pencils.
(b) Oil pastels.
(c) Tattoo inks.
(d) Crayons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What snack do Lauren and Maya share at 2 a.m. the morning after their big argument the day before?

2. What does Grace say that both Max and his father do when they are angry?

3. Who is the first person Maya calls after hanging up with 911 on the night of her mother's accident?

4. What favor does Grace ask of Rafe during one of their diner meetings?

5. What is NOT a reason Maya's mother insists that she cannot have a dog?

(see the answer key)

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