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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 does not know if she will still be able to attend college if her parents get divorced.
(c) She believes that her mother's alcoholism will worsen in the event of a divorce.
(d) She does not know how her adopted status will affect the choices made by her parents.

2. How far along is Grace when she realizes that she is pregnant?
(a) The seventh day of her first trimester.
(b) The eleventh day of her third trimester.
(c) The fifth day of her second trimester.
(d) The first day of her third trimester.

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

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

5. How much more money on average does Joaquin say it takes in adoption fees to adopt a white baby, versus a baby of color?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $24,500.
(c) $36,000.
(d) $8,600.

6. What does Grace do when Adam plays the sound in class as an act of bullying?
(a) She screams obscenities in Adam's face.
(b) She bursts into tears in her seat.
(c) She flies across the room and punches Adam repeatedly.
(d) She quietly leaves the room.

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

8. What action does Maya tell Joaquin that she takes when she is nervous?
(a) She talks a lot.
(b) She remains quiet.
(c) She twirls her hair.
(d) She notices small details about her surroundings.

9. What dreams in her past does Grace liken to what lunch will be like now that her place in the school is so uncertain?
(a) Dreams in which she is falling.
(b) Dreams in which she is wandering and trapped in a strange place.
(c) Dreams in which she is frozen and unable to move.
(d) Dreams in which she is aboard a quickly-descending plane.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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)?

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

4. When Maya's parents tell her about Grace, what do they say is the relationship between the two girls?

5. Who is ultimately deemed by the school to be responsible for the chaos that erupts on Grace's first and last day back to school?

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