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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. For how long is Maya's mother in the hospital due to her head wound?
(a) Two days.
(b) Three hours.
(c) Overnight.
(d) A week.

2. During Ana's illustration to Joaquin about Mark and Linda, to what object does she liken these two potential parents for Joaquin?
(a) A set of wings.
(b) A soft bed.
(c) Jet fuel.
(d) Training wheels.

3. What is NOT one of the activities Joaquin lists among the things he has learned from certain foster siblings and parents over the years?
(a) Diving.
(b) Calligraphy.
(c) Boxing.
(d) Baking.

4. For what transgression does Maya punish Claire repeatedly, leading to the couple's break-up?
(a) For not kissing Maya goodbye on the first day of school.
(b) For not answering Maya's texts on the night Maya's brother moved out.
(c) For not answering Maya's texts on the night Maya's mother checked into rehab.
(d) For not answering Maya's texts on the night Maya's dad moved out.

5. Who is the first person Maya calls after hanging up with 911 on the night of her mother's accident?
(a) Joaquin.
(b) Claire.
(c) Grace.
(d) Rafe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Maya say she had forgotten about due to the horrors of finding her mother bleeding on the floor?

2. What does Joaquin regret telling Maya and Grace once he gets home from meeting up with them?

3. What activity does Grace's dad try to get Grace to do with him during Grace's period of depression?

4. In what way does Joaquin physically interact with Adam after Adam insults Grace?

5. Once Adam leaves the scene of his altercation with Joaquin, what does Joaquin do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Rafe's family situation?

3. 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)?

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

5. How does Maya characterize her relationship with Lauren?

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. When Grace muses that she is now a girl who does not "have friends anymore" (183), she makes one exception. Whom does she say is her friend?

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