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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. What is the subject header of the very first email Maya ever receives from Grace and is followed by a question mark within the subject line?
(a) Family.
(b) Can it be.
(c) Hello.
(d) Sister.

2. 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 Joaquin's older foster brother's tattoo.
(b) The image of Claire kissing another girl.
(c) The image of the bruises on Joaquin's back.
(d) The image of infant Joaquin waiting for a family.

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

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

5. What item is with the empty wine bottle that Maya finds in her house?
(a) A bottle of whiskey.
(b) A corkscrew.
(c) A dirty wine glass.
(d) A full wine bottle.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. For what reason are Grace and her parents surprised when they pull up to Maya's house for the first time?

4. To what college had Grace been planning to apply before becoming pregnant?

5. Due to his extreme discomfort with the environment of Ana's office, where do the two begin to meet instead?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the origin of Peach's nickname?

2. What is ironic about Grace's television-watching habits prior to becoming pregnant with Peach?

3. How does Grace spend homecoming night of her junior year, and how does the night differ from her previous expectations?

4. How does Joaquin respond to the teacher's aide's request of him at Christmastime?

5. What reasons are given for Maya's love of the Disney film version of Alice in Wonderland and how does her perspective on her favorite scene change over time?

6. What lie does Grace tell Maya and Joaquin about her lengthy absence from school?

7. How does the author demonstrate the difference between Grace's high school days before Peach and her experiences at school after Peach's birth?

8. Discuss an instance when Joaquin experiences self-loathing.

9. After two weeks of agony spent missing Peach, what desire brings Grace out of her depression?

10. What simile does the narrator use to depict the careful way in which Grace's father tells her that she has biological siblings?

(see the answer keys)

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