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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 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 dress.
(b) Her pajama pants.
(c) Her shirt.
(d) Her scarf.

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

3. Whom does Joaquin avoid telling about his possible adoption, for fear of letting that person's opinion sway him?
(a) His boss Peter.
(b) His sister Grace.
(c) His therapist Ana.
(d) His sister Maya.

4. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care by whom?
(a) His mother Danielle.
(b) His mother Martha.
(c) His mother Sassafras.
(d) His mother Melissa.

5. According to Grace, in what period of her first day back at school does everything "crumble into oblivion" (101)?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Third.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dreams in her past does Grace liken to what lunch will be like now that her place in the school is so uncertain?

2. When Grace first begins thinking about the Homecoming Dance, for how long has she been dating Max?

3. What event does Maya say she had forgotten about due to the horrors of finding her mother bleeding on the floor?

4. In what way is Maya's hair different from Grace's hair, prompting Grace to consider changing hers?

5. At what location do Joaquin's summoned people appear within his dream?

(see the answer key)

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