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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound does Grace hear coming from all four parents present in the room when Grace and Maya meet for the first time?
(a) The sound of whispering.
(b) The sound of sniffles.
(c) The sound of quiet squealing.
(d) The sound of popcorn being eaten.

2. What is Grace's first class of the day when she returns to school for the first time after Peach's birth?
(a) English.
(b) Math.
(c) Home Economics.
(d) Biology.

3. When Maya asks Grace what it is like to be an only child, what is Grace's response?
(a) Awesome.
(b) Quiet.
(c) She says she has never thought about it.
(d) Boring.

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

5. In what way is Maya's hair different from Grace's hair, prompting Grace to consider changing hers?
(a) Maya's hair is curlier than Grace's hair.
(b) Maya's hair is longer than Grace's hair.
(c) Maya's hair is in braids.
(d) Maya's hair is styled in a pixie cut.

6. What lie does Grace tell Joaquin and Maya about her long absence from school?
(a) She tells them that she has been attending a college prep academy.
(b) She tells them her family has been on vacation.
(c) She tells them that a stalker has been harassing her.
(d) She tells them she had been sick with mono.

7. When Mark and Linda sit Joaquin down to tell him they want to adopt him, what does he think they are about to do instead?
(a) Tell him that Linda is pregnant.
(b) Tell him they are getting a divorce.
(c) Give him a car.
(d) Ask him to leave.

8. When Grace realizes that she is pregnant, she looks up the size of the baby on Google. Her baby is the size of what object?
(a) A dime.
(b) A walnut.
(c) A peach.
(d) A cantaloupe.

9. What does Grace say that both Max and his father do when they are angry?
(a) They lower their voices.
(b) They flare their nostrils.
(c) They shake.
(d) They yell.

10. How long does it take before Maya receives a response to her email reaching out to Joaquin?
(a) A week.
(b) Three days.
(c) A day.
(d) Three hours.

11. Due to his extreme discomfort with the environment of Ana's office, where do the two begin to meet instead?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A juice bar.
(c) A park.
(d) A diner.

12. What items does Joaquin tell Ana that Birdie has, while he does not, making them wrong for one another?
(a) Baby pictures.
(b) A mom.
(c) A birth certificate.
(d) A past.

13. When Maya's parents tell her about Grace, what do they say is the relationship between the two girls?
(a) Grace and Maya have the same godparents.
(b) Grace and Maya are sisters.
(c) Grace and Maya are second cousins.
(d) Grace and Maya are half-sisters.

14. What is NOT on the list of things Maya means to do in the two years or so?
(a) Graduate from high school.
(b) Finding her biological mother.
(c) Go to New York.
(d) Live with Claire.

15. 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 quietly leaves the room.
(d) She screams obscenities in Adam's face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joaquin's reason for believing he is part Mexican?

2. What is NOT listed among the activities Maya does late at night for many nights after meeting Joaquin?

3. When the reader first meets Joaquin, for how long has he lived with his current foster parents, Mark and Linda?

4. How does Joaquin truly feel deep down about calling Mark and Linda Mom and Dad?

5. What image keeps bringing on Maya's "terrible feelings pushing their way past her heart and into her throat, choking her" (113)?

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