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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 308-374.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Even before meeting his biological sisters, Joaquin had known that they would both be what?
(a) Tiny.
(b) White.
(c) Pretty.
(d) Tall.

3. What announcement does Maya make at the dinner table with her dad and Lauren that makes Lauren choke on her food?
(a) She has been volunteering at Planned Parenthood for three months.
(b) She is going to shave her head.
(c) She wants to look for her biological mother.
(d) She wants to join the roller derby team.

4. Who asks Joaquin to come into his office for a quick minute as Joaquin is leaving school on a Friday?
(a) The vice principal.
(b) The principal.
(c) The guidance counselor.
(d) His English teacher.

5. Whenever the vice principal sees Joaquin and Birdie kissing at school, he says what word in their direction?
(a) Please.
(b) Stop.
(c) Halverson.
(d) Gutierrez.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests to Grace that she visit Peach when Peach is six months old?

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

3. Where does Maya's mother go directly from the hospital?

4. How much more money on average does Joaquin say it takes in adoption fees to adopt a white baby, versus a baby of color?

5. What is NOT a feature of the necklace Grace keeps hidden under her shirt to honor her biological daughter?

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