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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. How does Grace react when Adam comes into the Starbucks at the mall?
(a) She starts to cry.
(b) She runs out of the side door.
(c) She begins to tremble.
(d) She hides under the table.

2. Why does Joaquin hate iced tea?
(a) Because it is cloyingly sweet.
(b) Because it is much too bitter.
(c) Because he does not like to eat leaves or twigs.
(d) Because it reminds him of the foster mother who questioned whether he knew what iced tea was.

3. Who asks Joaquin to come into his office for a quick minute as Joaquin is leaving school on a Friday?
(a) The principal.
(b) The guidance counselor.
(c) The vice principal.
(d) His English teacher.

4. Whom does Joaquin avoid telling about his possible adoption, for fear of letting that person's opinion sway him?
(a) His sister Maya.
(b) His boss Peter.
(c) His therapist Ana.
(d) His sister Grace.

5. What is the truthful answer to the question Grace's mother asks her about her relationship with Rafe?
(a) They do not like one another at all.
(b) They are engaged.
(c) They are friends who flirt.
(d) They are going steady.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nervous habit has Joaquin never been able to break?

2. In what room does Lauren find her mother unconscious and bleeding from the head?

3. For how long is Maya's mother in the hospital due to her head wound?

4. What announcement does Maya make at the dinner table with her dad and Lauren that makes Lauren choke on her food?

5. On what day of the week do Joaquin, Grace, and Maya pledge to meet up each week?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Joaquin do when he is overcome by the feelings associated with his altercation with Adam?

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

4. How is the theme of isolation depicted within Joaquin's reaction to his sisters' queries after his altercation with Adam?

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

6. What word does Maya's dad use in reference to Maya's birth mother that infuriates Maya?

7. What is the symbolism of the iced tea Joaquin loathes?

8. 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?

9. 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)?

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

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