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

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

3. The narrator states that after meeting Joaquin, Maya has a hard time doing what?
(a) Focusing.
(b) Smiling.
(c) Eating.
(d) Sleeping.

4. 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) $36,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $24,500.

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

6. What is NOT listed among the activities Maya does late at night for many nights after meeting Joaquin?
(a) Takes Harry Potter quizzes.
(b) Looks at old text messages from Claire.
(c) Talks to Claire on her phone.
(d) Reading websites on her phone.

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

8. What does Joaquin feel that he always has to say when people start speaking to him in Spanish?
(a) No espanol.
(b) Please repeat.
(c) Speak English.
(d) Sorry.

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

10. 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) 2 minutes.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 10 minutes.

11. For how long has Joaquin been seeing Ana in therapy at the time he breaks up with Birdie?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 12 months.
(d) 18 months.

12. 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 wandering and trapped in a strange place.
(b) Dreams in which she is falling.
(c) Dreams in which she is aboard a quickly-descending plane.
(d) Dreams in which she is frozen and unable to move.

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

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

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

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

3. At what location do Joaquin's summoned people appear within his dream?

4. How old had Joaquin been when he was placed on a psychiatric hold in the mental hospital?

5. What does Grace do when Adam plays the sound in class as an act of bullying?

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