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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gabi write a poem about after she gets home from her first performance at The Grind Effect?
(a) The experience of performing her poetry on stage.
(b) Her difficult relationship with her mother.
(c) Her love for Martin.
(d) Her feelings about Cindy.

2. What does Georgina tell Gabi about the decision she has made on March 18?
(a) Georgina tells Gabi she has decided to have an abortion.
(b) Georgina tells Gabi she is going to change her name.
(c) Georgina tells Gabi she is going to leave the country.
(d) Georgina tells Gabi she needs to borrow money to go to college.

3. Why is Tia Bertha upset on Gabi's birthday?
(a) Her ex-husband told her not to come to see him anymore because his new wife is pregnant.
(b) She has just joined a cult and is nervous about it.
(c) She thinks the devil is after her.
(d) She has just rejoined the Catholic church and is trying to atone.

4. What does Gabi write about on March 16 that Georgina tells her that shocks her?
(a) Georgina's parents are getting divorced.
(b) Georgina has cancer.
(c) Georgina is eloping with Joshua.
(d) Georgina is pregnant.

5. Why does Martin get mad at Gabi in April?
(a) Gabi keeps borrowing money from Martin and it bothers him.
(b) Martin thinks Gabi has been too depressed.
(c) Ian tells Martin that Gabi tried to kiss him, which is a lie.
(d) Gabi does not want to have sex but Martin does want to and his is frustrated.

6. Who moves in with Gabi's family to help with her new infant brother?
(a) Uncle Hermando.
(b) Tia Agi.
(c) Tia Bertha.
(d) Luis.

7. Where does Gabi's mother work?
(a) At a hospital.
(b) At a hair salon.
(c) At a diner.
(d) At a bank.

8. What religion does Gabi know Georgina's family follows?
(a) They are Jehovah's Witness.
(b) They are Muslim
(c) They are Jewish.
(d) They are Catholic.

9. What does Martin bring for Gabi's baby brother as a gift?
(a) A book titled Oh The Places You'll Go.
(b) A Winne-the-Pooh book.
(c) A teddy bear.
(d) A Sandra Cisneros book.

10. What school does Gabi find out she was accepted to on March 29?
(a) Yale.
(b) University of Arizona.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Oberlin.

11. What does Sebastian give Gabi for Christmas?
(a) Ice Cream.
(b) A picture of him, Gabi and Cindy.
(c) Chocolates.
(d) A new sweater.

12. What does Cindy name her baby?
(a) Sahar Jennifer.
(b) Samuel Nero.
(c) Sebastian Gabriel.
(d) James Dean.

13. What is one of the many questions Gabi would like to ask her mother but is afraid to?
(a) What is your favorite color?
(b) How do you really feel about my father?
(c) How did your mother talk to you about sex?
(d) How old were you when you had sex for the first time?

14. What surprises Gabi about what happens when she and Martin take Georgina to the clinic?
(a) Georgina has to come back in two days.
(b) Georgina has to stay overnight.
(c) Georgina has to come back with more money.
(d) Georgina has to come back with a parent.

15. What do Cindy and Sebastian tell Gabi when she finally tells them she likes Martin?
(a) That they saw Martin kissing Sandra.
(b) That they knew already and were only waiting for Gabi to tell them.
(c) That they do not like Martin.
(d) That Martin has problems Gabi does not know about.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Martin's birthday gift to Gabi?

2. Where does Gabi find her father's body?

3. What kind of a store is Mirdyss?

4. What line does Gabi use repeatedly in one of her poems about her father?

5. what price does Gabi sell her zine at The Grind Effect for?

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