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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through August, Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joyce feel is part of her mission with the girls?
(a) to get them husbands
(b) to adopt their babies
(c) to educate them
(d) to pay for their education

2. With whom does Joyce work?
(a) she works alone
(b) everyone
(c) gang members
(d) black girls

3. What does Eddie tell Ava was the crime that put him in jail?
(a) he killed two people
(b) he was dealing drugs
(c) he broke into a house
(d) he hit someone with his car

4. What is Ava told about the break-ins?
(a) the police aren't trying to find the guilty party
(b) nothing has actually been stolen
(c) they think they know the two boys doing it
(d) they have always happened around there

5. How does Ava get her medicine for the HIV?
(a) her Atlanta physician phones it in
(b) she gets it from the health department
(c) it is mailed to her
(d) she has a doctor in Idlewild

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Ava's romantic life been up to the point of the beginning of the book?

2. How does Ava feel about her experience with Eddie the night before?

3. How does it work out for the Sewing Circle to meet at Joyce's house?

4. What kind of encounter does Ava have with two young men after she got her medicine?

5. What did the area of Idlewild on the lake used to be when Ava was young?

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