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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. When the reader first meets Joaquin, for how long has he lived with his current foster parents, Mark and Linda?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 weeks.

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

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

4. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care by whom?
(a) His mother Melissa.
(b) His mother Sassafras.
(c) His mother Martha.
(d) His mother Danielle.

5. What had one set of Joaquin's foster parents done to discourage him from being left-handed?
(a) They had tied his left hand behind his back.
(b) They had attached a string to his left hand as a reminder to use his right hand.
(c) They had taped his left hand shut.
(d) They had glued the fingers of his left hand together.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Grace say that both Max and his father do when they are angry?

3. What item is NOT part of any outfit Grace considers wearing on her first day back to school after maternity leave?

4. What dreams in her past does Grace liken to what lunch will be like now that her place in the school is so uncertain?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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. What is the origin of Peach's nickname?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are the qualities of Ana's therapy approach that Joaquin appreciates?

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

(see the answer keys)

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