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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. Whom does Grace tell her mom she is meeting at the mall when she is really going to visit Rafe at the cooking store?
(a) Peach.
(b) Janie.
(c) Joaquin.
(d) Maya.

2. How old are Rafe's brother and sister?
(a) In their thirties.
(b) Younger than ten.
(c) In their teens.
(d) In their twenties.

3. During the period when Grace watches television all day instead of studying, what people is she speaking of when she thinks that "those people's problems always seemed much worse, yet much more easily solvable, than her own" (181)?
(a) People on soap operas.
(b) People on courtroom judge shows.
(c) People on the news.
(d) People on sitcoms.

4. Whenever the vice principal sees Joaquin and Birdie kissing at school, he says what word in their direction?
(a) Gutierrez.
(b) Halverson.
(c) Stop.
(d) Please.

5. When Grace texts Joaquin to tell him the location of their meeting has changed, where does she tell him to go instead of the coffee shop?
(a) Maya's house.
(b) The school cafeteria.
(c) Grace's house.
(d) Joaquin's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of her siblings does Maya feel the closest?

2. What element of Maya's house do both Grace and Joaquin consider strange?

3. What does Rafe tell Grace about his family situation?

4. The car in the driveway turns out to be associated with what cause?

5. What is Grace's response when her mother asks about the boy she has been seen hanging out with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joaquin view as ironic about everyone making college plans around him at school?

2. What lie does Joaquin tell Mark and Linda about his recent visits with Ana, his therapist?

3. What turns out to be the mysterious event involving Joaquin and the Buchanans?

4. What do the Oreos symbolize in the scene between Lauren and Maya?

5. What are the living arrangements in Maya's family after her parent's separation?

6. What reasons does Joaquin provide when he tells Grace and Maya that he told Mark and Linda he did not want them to adopt him?

7. What does the narrator mean when stating that Grace feels "trapped in the amber of her pregnancy" (182)?

8. How does Lauren view Maya's treatment of Claire in relation to her own relationship with Maya?

9. During Mark and Linda's second inquiry into Joaquin's feelings about their possible adoption of him, what is the question he finally poses to them?

10. What are the characteristics of Lauren's communication with Claire that Maya considers unforgivable?

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