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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 image keeps bringing on Maya's "terrible feelings pushing their way past her heart and into her throat, choking her" (113)?
(a) The image of infant Joaquin waiting for a family.
(b) The image of the bruises on Joaquin's back.
(c) The image of Joaquin's older foster brother's tattoo.
(d) The image of Claire kissing another girl.

2. 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 falling.
(b) Dreams in which she is wandering and trapped in a strange place.
(c) Dreams in which she is aboard a quickly-descending plane.
(d) Dreams in which she is frozen and unable to move.

3. To what college had Grace been planning to apply before becoming pregnant?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Stanford.
(d) NYU.

4. How does Joaquin truly feel deep down about calling Mark and Linda Mom and Dad?
(a) He thinks he is too old to call anyone Mom or Dad.
(b) He wants to call them Mom and Dad very badly.
(c) He does not see why it matters if he calls them Mom and Dad.
(d) He does not want to call them Mom and Dad.

5. How much more money on average does Joaquin say it takes in adoption fees to adopt a white baby, versus a baby of color?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $8,600.
(c) $24,500.
(d) $36,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Next to whom does Grace sit in the class during which she says everything "crumbles into oblivion" (101) her first day back at school?

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

3. What items does Joaquin tell Ana that Birdie has, while he does not, making them wrong for one another?

4. For what reason are Grace and her parents surprised when they pull up to Maya's house for the first time?

5. What does Grace's ex-boyfriend Max end up doing on homecoming night?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance when Grace displays self-loathing.

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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