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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 quiet squealing.
(c) The sound of popcorn being eaten.
(d) The sound of sniffles.

2. 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) Lauren and Rafe.
(c) Mark and Linda.
(d) His mother and father.

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

4. What is NOT among the list of names Grace had been called by other students during her time attending high school while pregnant?
(a) Shamu.
(b) Fatty.
(c) Slut.
(d) Baby Mama.

5. What is NOT an aspect of Ana's office that Joaquin finds too alarming to be borne?
(a) It is clean.
(b) It is modern.
(c) It is yellow.
(d) It is white.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. Joaquin's favorite foster dad was a man named Rick who thought Joaquin was talented and bought him a set of what?
(a) Tattoo inks.
(b) Crayons.
(c) Drafting pencils.
(d) Oil pastels.

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

13. 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) 15 minutes.
(c) 5 minutes.
(d) 2 minutes.

14. 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) 2 years.
(d) 3 weeks.

15. What is Joaquin's reason for believing he is part Mexican?
(a) He recently received the results of his DNA test.
(b) A foster brother once told him he looked Mexican and he knows his father's name is Gutierrez.
(c) He knows that his father and mother met in Mazatlan.
(d) Mark and Linda researched his genealogy and told him of their findings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Next to whom does Grace sit in the class during which she says everything "crumbles into oblivion" (101) her first day back at school?

3. 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)?

4. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care by whom?

5. For what reason are Grace and her parents surprised when they pull up to Maya's house for the first time?

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