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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 Grace's ex-boyfriend Max end up doing on homecoming night?
(a) Shopping for baby supplies.
(b) Being crowned homecoming king at the dance.
(c) Watching his daughter's birth.
(d) Filing custody papers.

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

3. What dreams in her past does Grace liken to what lunch will be like now that her place in the school is so uncertain?
(a) Dreams in which she is frozen and unable to move.
(b) Dreams in which she is falling.
(c) Dreams in which she is wandering and trapped in a strange place.
(d) Dreams in which she is aboard a quickly-descending plane.

4. Next to whom does Grace sit in the class during which she says everything "crumbles into oblivion" (101) her first day back at school?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Adam.
(c) Janie.
(d) Max.

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 become a doctor.
(c) He plans to attend UCLA.
(d) He plans to attend Stanford.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Ana react to Joaquin's news that he has broken up with Birdie?

3. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care by whom?

4. How much more money on average does Joaquin say it takes in adoption fees to adopt a white baby, versus a baby of color?

5. How many months after adopting Maya had Maya's mother discovered she was pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What reasons are given for Maya's love of the Disney film version of Alice in Wonderland and how does her perspective on her favorite scene change over time?

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

4. What aspect of Maya's character causes her to qualify as a member of a marginalized community?

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

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

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

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

9. What does the tattoo across the shoulders of one of Joaquin's older foster brothers symbolize?

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

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