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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What nervous habit has Joaquin never been able to break?
2. Of whom does Grace dream night after night subsequent to meeting Maya and Joaquin?
3. What event does Maya say she had forgotten about due to the horrors of finding her mother bleeding on the floor?
4. What order does Maya give Claire before storming off after their post-break-up fight at school?
5. What does Joaquin regret telling Maya and Grace once he gets home from meeting up with them?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Joaquin provide when he tells Grace and Maya that he told Mark and Linda he did not want them to adopt him?
2. What does the narrator mean when stating that Grace feels "trapped in the amber of her pregnancy" (182)?
3. What are the characteristics of Lauren's communication with Claire that Maya considers unforgivable?
4. After Claire and Maya's break-up, Lauren asks about the origin of Maya's sunburn. What is the significance of Maya's cryptic reply that she had flown "too close to the sun" (200)?
5. For what transgression does Maya blame Claire for an extended period of time near the end of the couple's relationship and why?
6. What is Rafe's family situation?
7. When Grace muses that she is now a girl who does not "have friends anymore" (183), she makes one exception. Whom does she say is her friend?
8. What are the living arrangements in Maya's family after her parent's separation?
9. How is the theme of secrecy depicted within Claire's accusations toward Maya during their fight that ends in a break-up?
10. What word does Maya's dad use in reference to Maya's birth mother that infuriates Maya?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's messages about secrecy and deception within Robin Benway's novel Far From the Tree.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's use of humor alongside humanist messages within Robin Benway's novel Far From the Tree.
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's message regarding motherhood and what themes does the author employ in order to send these messages to the reader?
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