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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 73-153.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Joaquin's reason for believing he is part Mexican?
(a) A foster brother once told him he looked Mexican and he knows his father's name is Gutierrez.
(b) He recently received the results of his DNA test.
(c) He knows that his father and mother met in Mazatlan.
(d) Mark and Linda researched his genealogy and told him of their findings.

2. What item is said to have appeared on the bodies of Janie and Rachel in Grace's absence from school?
(a) Backpacks instead of purses.
(b) Purses instead of backpacks.
(c) Phone wallets instead of purses.
(d) Fanny packs instead of purses.

3. The narrator states that after meeting Joaquin, Maya has a hard time doing what?
(a) Smiling.
(b) Focusing.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating.

4. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care by whom?
(a) His mother Melissa.
(b) His mother Martha.
(c) His mother Danielle.
(d) His mother Sassafras.

5. What does Joaquin feel that he always has to say when people start speaking to him in Spanish?
(a) No espanol.
(b) Sorry.
(c) Speak English.
(d) Please repeat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT on the list of things Maya means to do in the two years or so?

2. For how long has Joaquin been seeing Ana in therapy at the time he breaks up with Birdie?

3. What dreams in her past does Grace liken to what lunch will be like now that her place in the school is so uncertain?

4. When Mark and Linda sit Joaquin down to tell him they want to adopt him, what does he think they are about to do instead?

5. What is NOT listed among the activities Maya does late at night for many nights after meeting Joaquin?

(see the answer key)

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