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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months after adopting Maya had Maya's mother discovered she was pregnant?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 16.

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

3. How does Grace's mother find out she has been hanging around with Rafe?
(a) Grace tells them.
(b) She finds messages from Rafe on Grace's phone.
(c) A neighbor calls and reports seeing Grace with a boy.
(d) Rafe introduces himself when Grace is not at home.

4. What does Grace do when Adam plays the sound in class as an act of bullying?
(a) She bursts into tears in her seat.
(b) She flies across the room and punches Adam repeatedly.
(c) She screams obscenities in Adam's face.
(d) She quietly leaves the room.

5. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care at what age?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Max feel about his father?

2. What is NOT one of the activities Joaquin lists among the things he has learned from certain foster siblings and parents over the years?

3. Whenever the vice principal sees Joaquin and Birdie kissing at school, he says what word in their direction?

4. What does Grace's ex-boyfriend Max end up doing on homecoming night?

5. What element of Maya's house do both Grace and Joaquin consider strange?

(see the answer key)

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