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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 item of clothing eventually worn by Grace on her first day back to school is said to match "the stress hives that were starting to appear on her chest and neck" (95)?
(a) Her dress.
(b) Her shirt.
(c) Her scarf.
(d) Her pajama pants.

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

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

4. How long does it take before Maya receives a response to her email reaching out to Joaquin?
(a) A week.
(b) Three hours.
(c) Three days.
(d) A day.

5. Joaquin knows that he had been placed in foster care at what age?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Maya's parents feel about the fact that she is gay?

2. When the reader first meets Joaquin, for how long has he lived with his current foster parents, Mark and Linda?

3. When Grace first begins thinking about the Homecoming Dance, for how long has she been dating Max?

4. What item does the teacher's aide in his U.S. history class ask to buy from Joaquin's family?

5. At what location do Joaquin's summoned people appear within his dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance when Grace displays self-loathing.

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

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

4. What does Janie's purse symbolize upon Grace's return to high school?

5. What are a few characteristics of the adoptive parents Grace chooses for Peach and what is one detail about them that particularly pleases her?

6. What favor does the teacher's aide for Joaquin's class ask Joaquin to do around Christmastime?

7. 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?

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

9. How is the theme of responsibility depicted in Maya's relationship with her sister Lauren?

10. What two aspects of Maya's own identity does she think about during her long sleepless night after meeting Joaquin?

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