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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mark and Linda wake Joaquin from a nightmare, for whom do they say he had been calling in his sleep?
(a) Grace and Maya.
(b) His mother and father.
(c) Lauren and Rafe.
(d) Mark and Linda.

2. When Joaquin can finally speak after fleeing his first meeting with Ana, what place does he say the office had too closely resembled?
(a) The hospital.
(b) Jail.
(c) A library.
(d) Purgatory.

3. In what location does Maya find an empty wine bottle her mother has hidden in the house?
(a) Under the kitchen sink.
(b) On the back porch inside an empty planter.
(c) Behind the washing machine.
(d) In the back of the closet in a pair of boots.

4. How does Max feel about his father?
(a) Max hates his father.
(b) Max does not understand his father.
(c) Max fears his father.
(d) Max idolizes his father.

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

6. What item does the teacher's aide in his U.S. history class ask to buy from Joaquin's family?
(a) Tamales.
(b) Enchiladas.
(c) Raspberries.
(d) Oranges.

7. Max's father tells Grace's parents that Max is dating what kind of girl now?
(a) A girl with ambition.
(b) A nice girl.
(c) A beautiful girl.
(d) A good girl.

8. For what reason are Grace and her parents surprised when they pull up to Maya's house for the first time?
(a) There is a yacht on a trailer in the driveway.
(b) The house is dilapidated and small.
(c) The house is large and impressive.
(d) The whole family is out in the front yard playing croquet.

9. 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 screams obscenities in Adam's face.
(c) She quietly leaves the room.
(d) She flies across the room and punches Adam repeatedly.

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

11. What does Grace's ex-boyfriend Max end up doing on homecoming night?
(a) Being crowned homecoming king at the dance.
(b) Watching his daughter's birth.
(c) Filing custody papers.
(d) Shopping for baby supplies.

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

13. The night Lauren asks Maya about their parents' possible divorce, what thought keeps Maya awake all night?
(a) She worries that Lauren will be emotionally crippled in the event of their parents' divorce.
(b) She believes that her mother's alcoholism will worsen in the event of a divorce.
(c) She does not know how her adopted status will affect the choices made by her parents.
(d) She does not know if she will still be able to attend college if her parents get divorced.

14. What had one set of Joaquin's foster parents done to discourage him from being left-handed?
(a) They had attached a string to his left hand as a reminder to use his right hand.
(b) They had tied his left hand behind his back.
(c) They had taped his left hand shut.
(d) They had glued the fingers of his left hand together.

15. 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 dire.
(b) More humorous.
(c) More terrible.
(d) More cartoonish.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What item is said to have appeared on the bodies of Janie and Rachel in Grace's absence from school?

4. For how long has Joaquin been seeing Ana in therapy at the time he breaks up with Birdie?

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

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