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

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

3. How many different times has Joaquin been asked to leave a foster home for one reason or another?
(a) 8.
(b) 17.
(c) 11.
(d) 5.

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

5. Joaquin's favorite foster dad was a man named Rick who thought Joaquin was talented and bought him a set of what?
(a) Oil pastels.
(b) Drafting pencils.
(c) Tattoo inks.
(d) Crayons.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. When the reader first meets Joaquin, for how long has he lived with his current foster parents, Mark and Linda?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What has always been the strategy Grace's parents have used in regards to her status as an adopted child?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Grace spend homecoming night of her junior year, and how does the night differ from her previous expectations?

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

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