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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September, Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ava promise Aretha if she goes to Interlochen?
(a) a new car
(b) a new haircut
(c) new shoes
(d) a new suit

2. What did one of the boys throw through the window?
(a) an empty beer bottle
(b) a rock
(c) a baseball
(d) a brick

3. What kind of meals do Joyce and Eddie cook?
(a) Italian
(b) southern
(c) Mexican
(d) vegetarian

4. What do Joyce and Ava do the night Gerry came over?
(a) go bar hopping
(b) take a moonlight swim
(c) get drunk
(d) throw a party

5. Why did black people first start coming to Idlewild?
(a) to build an all black community
(b) to form a militant commune
(c) because the lake was pretty
(d) it was a haven from the city

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they find has happened to Imani?

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

3. What does Joyce do for a living?

4. Who does Joyce see as a beacon of hope for the Sewing Circus?

5. How is the issue finally resolved?

(see the answer key)

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