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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When Grace realizes that she is pregnant, she looks up the size of the baby on Google. Her baby is the size of what object?
(a) A dime.
(b) A cantaloupe.
(c) A peach.
(d) A walnut.

5. How do Maya's parents feel about the fact that she is gay?
(a) They are proud.
(b) They are angry that she waited so long to come out.
(c) They are reluctantly tolerant.
(d) They claim ignorance.

6. What item is NOT part of any outfit Grace considers wearing on her first day back to school after maternity leave?
(a) Pajama pants.
(b) Boyfriend jeans.
(c) A mini-skirt.
(d) A maroon shirt.

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

8. What is the subject header of the very first email Maya ever receives from Grace and is followed by a question mark within the subject line?
(a) Family.
(b) Hello.
(c) Sister.
(d) Can it be.

9. How does Joaquin truly feel deep down about calling Mark and Linda Mom and Dad?
(a) He does not want to call them Mom and Dad.
(b) He does not see why it matters if he calls them Mom and Dad.
(c) He wants to call them Mom and Dad very badly.
(d) He thinks he is too old to call anyone Mom or Dad.

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

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

12. 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?
(a) Janie.
(b) Grace.
(c) Adam.
(d) Max.

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

14. To what college had Grace been planning to apply before becoming pregnant?
(a) NYU.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Cornell.

15. How many minutes away from Maya's house is Grace's house?
(a) 40 minutes.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mark and Linda wake Joaquin from a nightmare, for whom do they say he had been calling in his sleep?

2. The night Lauren asks Maya about their parents' possible divorce, what thought keeps Maya awake all night?

3. What is NOT listed among the activities Maya does late at night for many nights after meeting Joaquin?

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

5. When Maya asks Grace what it is like to be an only child, what is Grace's response?

(see the answer keys)

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