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

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

3. What item is said to have appeared on the bodies of Janie and Rachel in Grace's absence from school?
(a) Backpacks instead of purses.
(b) Phone wallets instead of purses.
(c) Fanny packs instead of purses.
(d) Purses instead of backpacks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Joaquin feel that he always has to say when people start speaking to him in Spanish?

3. How long does it take before Maya receives a response to her email reaching out to Joaquin?

4. According to Grace, in what period of her first day back at school does everything "crumble into oblivion" (101)?

5. Joaquin's favorite foster dad was a man named Rick who thought Joaquin was talented and bought him a set of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What favor does the teacher's aide for Joaquin's class ask Joaquin to do around Christmastime?

2. What two aspects of Maya's own identity does she think about during her long sleepless night after meeting Joaquin?

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

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

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

6. What is the origin of Peach's nickname?

7. What causes Grace to lie to Maya and Joaquin about her lengthy absence from school?

8. What is ironic about Grace's television-watching habits prior to becoming pregnant with Peach?

9. 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?

10. Discuss an instance when Joaquin experiences self-loathing.

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