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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item does the teacher's aide in his U.S. history class ask to buy from Joaquin's family?
(a) Tamales.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Enchiladas.
(d) Raspberries.

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) Phone wallets instead of purses.
(c) Purses instead of backpacks.
(d) Fanny packs instead of purses.

3. When Grace first begins thinking about the Homecoming Dance, for how long has she been dating Max?
(a) Just over two years.
(b) Just over a year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Six weeks.

4. What does Grace do when Adam plays the sound in class as an act of bullying?
(a) She quietly leaves the room.
(b) She screams obscenities in Adam's face.
(c) She bursts into tears in her seat.
(d) She flies across the room and punches Adam repeatedly.

5. What sound does Adam play in class to torture Grace?
(a) The sound of a lullaby.
(b) The sound of a woman speaking to her baby.
(c) The sound of a baby's cry.
(d) The sound of a rattle.

6. What action does Maya tell Joaquin that she takes when she is nervous?
(a) She talks a lot.
(b) She twirls her hair.
(c) She notices small details about her surroundings.
(d) She remains quiet.

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

8. According to Grace, in what period of her first day back at school does everything "crumble into oblivion" (101)?
(a) Third.
(b) Sixth.
(c) Second.
(d) Fourth.

9. When Maya asks Grace what it is like to be an only child, what is Grace's response?
(a) Boring.
(b) Awesome.
(c) She says she has never thought about it.
(d) Quiet.

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

11. What does Grace's ex-boyfriend Max end up doing on homecoming night?
(a) Watching his daughter's birth.
(b) Shopping for baby supplies.
(c) Being crowned homecoming king at the dance.
(d) Filing custody papers.

12. What is NOT on the list of things Maya means to do in the two years or so?
(a) Go to New York.
(b) Finding her biological mother.
(c) Live with Claire.
(d) Graduate from high school.

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

14. On the night Maya's parents tell her about Grace, she says that it has been how long since her parents have been home together and not "at each other's throats" (23)?
(a) Days.
(b) Months.
(c) Weeks.
(d) Years.

15. To what college had Grace been planning to apply before becoming pregnant?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) NYU.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT among the list of names Grace had been called by other students during her time attending high school while pregnant?

2. When Mark and Linda wake Joaquin from a nightmare, for whom do they say he had been calling in his sleep?

3. How many different times has Joaquin been asked to leave a foster home for one reason or another?

4. What is Grace's first class of the day when she returns to school for the first time after Peach's birth?

5. How does Joaquin truly feel deep down about calling Mark and Linda Mom and Dad?

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