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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) 15 minutes.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 2 minutes.
(d) 10 minutes.

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

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

6. What image keeps bringing on Maya's "terrible feelings pushing their way past her heart and into her throat, choking her" (113)?
(a) The image of infant Joaquin waiting for a family.
(b) The image of Joaquin's older foster brother's tattoo.
(c) The image of Claire kissing another girl.
(d) The image of the bruises on Joaquin's back.

7. What do Max's parents say are the plans for his future that conflict with being a teenage father?
(a) He plans to attend Stanford.
(b) He plans to attend UCLA.
(c) He plans to become a doctor.
(d) He plans to be a college professor.

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

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

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

11. 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) Days.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Months.
(d) Years.

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. Even before meeting his biological sisters, Joaquin had known that they would both be what?
(a) White.
(b) Tall.
(c) Tiny.
(d) Pretty.

14. What tune does the doorbell at Maya's house play?
(a) Chopsticks.
(b) Old Paint.
(c) Ode to Joy.
(d) That's Amore.

15. What reason is given for Joaquin's long delay in writing back to Maya after she contacts him for the first time?
(a) He is worried that his sisters will not like him.
(b) He did not have a working internet connection.
(c) He had lost the slip of paper containing her number.
(d) He had deleted her email by mistake.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Grace first begins thinking about the Homecoming Dance, for how long has she been dating Max?

2. What subjects are featured in the majority of the posters hanging on Maya's bedroom walls?

3. What item is NOT part of any outfit Grace considers wearing on her first day back to school after maternity leave?

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

5. What is NOT among the list of names Grace had been called by other students during her time attending high school while pregnant?

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