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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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)?
(a) Her shirt.
(b) Her scarf.
(c) Her pajama pants.
(d) Her dress.

3. When the reader first meets Joaquin, for how long has he lived with his current foster parents, Mark and Linda?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 2 years.

4. Due to his extreme discomfort with the environment of Ana's office, after how many minutes does Joaquin flee his first meeting with Ana?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 2 minutes.
(d) 15 minutes.

5. How does Ana react to Joaquin's news that he has broken up with Birdie?
(a) She is relieved.
(b) She is unfazed.
(c) She is dubious.
(d) She is surprised.

6. 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) $8,600.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $24,500.
(d) $36,000.

7. 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 if she will still be able to attend college if her parents get divorced.
(d) She does not know how her adopted status will affect the choices made by her parents.

8. How old had Joaquin been when he was placed on a psychiatric hold in the mental hospital?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 4.

9. On the night Maya's parents tell her about Grace, she says that it has been how long since her parents have been home together and not "at each other's throats" (23)?
(a) Months.
(b) Years.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Days.

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

11. When Grace first begins thinking about the Homecoming Dance, for how long has she been dating Max?
(a) Six months.
(b) Just over a year.
(c) Just over two years.
(d) Six weeks.

12. What item is said to have appeared on the bodies of Janie and Rachel in Grace's absence from school?
(a) Purses instead of backpacks.
(b) Backpacks instead of purses.
(c) Phone wallets instead of purses.
(d) Fanny packs instead of purses.

13. What is NOT something about Birdie that Joaquin misses, now that they have broken up?
(a) Her laugh.
(b) Her sarcastic wit.
(c) The smell of her skin.
(d) Her furious anger whenever someone said something she disagreed with.

14. What item is with the empty wine bottle that Maya finds in her house?
(a) A corkscrew.
(b) A bottle of whiskey.
(c) A dirty wine glass.
(d) A full wine bottle.

15. 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 diner.
(c) A juice bar.
(d) A park.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many months after adopting Maya had Maya's mother discovered she was pregnant?

2. Even before meeting his biological sisters, Joaquin had known that they would both be what?

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

4. When Joaquin can finally speak after fleeing his first meeting with Ana, what place does he say the office had too closely resembled?

5. What does Grace end up doing on homecoming night?

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