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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound does Adam play in class to torture Grace?
(a) The sound of a woman speaking to her baby.
(b) The sound of a lullaby.
(c) The sound of a baby's cry.
(d) The sound of a rattle.

2. When Lauren asks Maya whether she thinks their parents are going to get a divorce, what is Maya's reply?
(a) She tells Lauren not to be stupid.
(b) She tells Lauren she thinks their parents will be happier if they do.
(c) She tells Lauren that she hopes they do.
(d) She tells Lauren to shut up and never to say that again.

3. When Joaquin can finally speak after fleeing his first meeting with Ana, what place does he say the office had too closely resembled?
(a) The hospital.
(b) Purgatory.
(c) Jail.
(d) A library.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long has Joaquin been seeing Ana in therapy at the time he breaks up with Birdie?

2. What is NOT an aspect of Ana's office that Joaquin finds too alarming to be borne?

3. What is Joaquin's reason for believing he is part Mexican?

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

5. What item is said to have appeared on the bodies of Janie and Rachel in Grace's absence from school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lie does Grace tell Maya and Joaquin about her lengthy absence from school?

2. After two weeks of agony spent missing Peach, what desire brings Grace out of her depression?

3. What quality of Maya and Grace's appearance had Joaquin known to expect even before meeting them for the first time?

4. Discuss an instance when Grace displays self-loathing.

5. What does Janie's purse symbolize upon Grace's return to high school?

6. How is the theme of responsibility depicted in Maya's relationship with her sister Lauren?

7. What does Grace whisper over and over to her unborn child and how does the detail depict the novel's themes of guilt and responsibility?

8. What are a few characteristics of the adoptive parents Grace chooses for Peach and what is one detail about them that particularly pleases her?

9. What simile does the narrator use to depict the careful way in which Grace's father tells her that she has biological siblings?

10. How does the father of Grace's daughter spend the night of the homecoming dance?

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