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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 order does Maya give Claire before storming off after their post-break-up fight at school?
(a) Not to text Lauren.
(b) Not to text Joaquin.
(c) Not to text Maya's dad.
(d) Not to text Maya's mom.

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

3. What news does Joaquin deliver at the diner that causes Maya to choke on her cookie?
(a) He says that he has thought about hurting himself.
(b) He says that Mark and Linda want to adopt him.
(c) He says that he and Birdie are broken up.
(d) He says that he has located his biological father.

4. After a lengthy report of the struggles Grace has been having, the narrator states "one thing" (181), however, that she does know. What is that one thing?
(a) She wants to spend winter break in Hawaii.
(b) She wants to try to get back together with Max.
(c) Going to school with bullies is driving her insane.
(d) Staying home with her parents is driving her insane.

5. In what room does Lauren find her mother unconscious and bleeding from the head?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The library.
(c) Her mother's bathroom.
(d) The sunroom.

Short Answer 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?

2. To which of her family members does Maya stop speaking for a week when she becomes angry?

3. Whom does Joaquin avoid telling about his possible adoption, for fear of letting that person's opinion sway him?

4. In what city does Maya's mom enter a rehab facility for her alcoholism?

5. What is Birdie's real name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rafe's family situation?

2. How does Maya characterize her relationship with Lauren?

3. What are the contents of the text Maya receives from her dad, setting in motion the chain of events that lead to Maya and Claire's break-up?

4. How is the theme of secrecy depicted within Claire's accusations toward Maya during their fight that ends in a break-up?

5. For what transgression does Maya blame Claire for an extended period of time near the end of the couple's relationship and why?

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 Joaquin do when he is overcome by the feelings associated with his altercation with Adam?

8. How does Joaquin feel after his altercation with Adam and why?

9. How does the author employ allusion within Grace's thoughts about Joaquin's lonely childhood existence?

10. After Claire and Maya's break-up, Lauren asks about the origin of Maya's sunburn. What is the significance of Maya's cryptic reply that she had flown "too close to the sun" (200)?

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