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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 does Joaquin feel that he always has to say when people start speaking to him in Spanish?
(a) Please repeat.
(b) Sorry.
(c) Speak English.
(d) No espanol.

2. When Mark and Linda wake Joaquin from a nightmare, for whom do they say he had been calling in his sleep?
(a) Mark and Linda.
(b) Grace and Maya.
(c) His mother and father.
(d) Lauren and Rafe.

3. When Grace first begins thinking about the Homecoming Dance, for how long has she been dating Max?
(a) Just over two years.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) Just over a year.

4. What subjects are featured in the majority of the posters hanging on Maya's bedroom walls?
(a) Movies.
(b) Edward Gorey drawings.
(c) Motocross riders.
(d) Bands.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What item of clothing eventually worn by Grace on her first day back to school is said to match "the stress hives that were starting to appear on her chest and neck" (95)?

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

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

5. Due to his extreme discomfort with the environment of Ana's office, after how many minutes does Joaquin flee his first meeting with Ana?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author demonstrate the difference between Grace's high school days before Peach and her experiences at school after Peach's birth?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Joaquin respond to the teacher's aide's request of him at Christmastime?

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

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