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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 do Max's parents say are the plans for his future that conflict with being a teenage father?
(a) He plans to attend Stanford.
(b) He plans to be a college professor.
(c) He plans to attend UCLA.
(d) He plans to become a doctor.

2. Maya thinks that everything seems a certain way "at three a.m." (26). How does she think everything seems at that hour, in comparison to other hours of the day?
(a) More cartoonish.
(b) More humorous.
(c) More terrible.
(d) More dire.

3. What news does Joaquin deliver at the diner that causes Maya to choke on her cookie?
(a) He says that he has located his biological father.
(b) He says that Mark and Linda want to adopt him.
(c) He says that he has thought about hurting himself.
(d) He says that he and Birdie are broken up.

4. When Ana asks Joaquin if he will tell Maya and Grace about his psychiatric episode, what is his reply?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) At some point.
(d) Soon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word does Maya settle upon when she decides how it feels for her dad to be back in the family home full-time while her mother is in rehab?

3. When Maya finally visits her mother in the rehab facility, for how long has her mother been there?

4. How does Max feel about his father?

5. Next to whom does Grace sit in the class during which she says everything "crumbles into oblivion" (101) her first day back at school?

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