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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do Maya's parents feel about the fact that she is gay?
(a) They are angry that she waited so long to come out.
(b) They claim ignorance.
(c) They are proud.
(d) They are reluctantly tolerant.

3. For what reason are Grace and her parents surprised when they pull up to Maya's house for the first time?
(a) The house is large and impressive.
(b) The house is dilapidated and small.
(c) The whole family is out in the front yard playing croquet.
(d) There is a yacht on a trailer in the driveway.

4. What is NOT something about Birdie that Joaquin misses, now that they have broken up?
(a) The smell of her skin.
(b) Her furious anger whenever someone said something she disagreed with.
(c) Her laugh.
(d) Her sarcastic wit.

5. What subjects are featured in the majority of the posters hanging on Maya's bedroom walls?
(a) Bands.
(b) Motocross riders.
(c) Edward Gorey drawings.
(d) Movies.

6. What dreams in her past does Grace liken to what lunch will be like now that her place in the school is so uncertain?
(a) Dreams in which she is falling.
(b) Dreams in which she is frozen and unable to move.
(c) Dreams in which she is wandering and trapped in a strange place.
(d) Dreams in which she is aboard a quickly-descending plane.

7. What had one set of Joaquin's foster parents done to discourage him from being left-handed?
(a) They had glued the fingers of his left hand together.
(b) They had attached a string to his left hand as a reminder to use his right hand.
(c) They had tied his left hand behind his back.
(d) They had taped his left hand shut.

8. What image keeps bringing on Maya's "terrible feelings pushing their way past her heart and into her throat, choking her" (113)?
(a) The image of infant Joaquin waiting for a family.
(b) The image of Claire kissing another girl.
(c) The image of the bruises on Joaquin's back.
(d) The image of Joaquin's older foster brother's tattoo.

9. What is NOT listed among the activities Maya does late at night for many nights after meeting Joaquin?
(a) Reading websites on her phone.
(b) Looks at old text messages from Claire.
(c) Talks to Claire on her phone.
(d) Takes Harry Potter quizzes.

10. What is Grace's first class of the day when she returns to school for the first time after Peach's birth?
(a) English.
(b) Biology.
(c) Math.
(d) Home Economics.

11. How does Joaquin truly feel deep down about calling Mark and Linda Mom and Dad?
(a) He wants to call them Mom and Dad very badly.
(b) He does not see why it matters if he calls them Mom and Dad.
(c) He thinks he is too old to call anyone Mom or Dad.
(d) He does not want to call them Mom and Dad.

12. When Mark and Linda wake Joaquin from a nightmare, for whom do they say he had been calling in his sleep?
(a) Lauren and Rafe.
(b) Grace and Maya.
(c) Mark and Linda.
(d) His mother and father.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Max feel about his father?

2. The night Lauren asks Maya about their parents' possible divorce, what thought keeps Maya awake all night?

3. When Ana asks Joaquin if he will tell Maya and Grace about his psychiatric episode, what is his reply?

4. What items does Joaquin tell Ana that Birdie has, while he does not, making them wrong for one another?

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

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