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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of Ava's big objections to Baptist teachings?
(a) not being able to dance
(b) not being able to gamble
(c) fire and brimstone
(d) not being a good person

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

3. What happened to Joyce on the eve of her wedding?
(a) her mother committed suicide
(b) her sister left the state
(c) her groom died
(d) her father disappeared

4. When does Joyce think the Sewing Circus is going to end?
(a) through Christmas
(b) until Ava leaves
(c) until the girls graduate
(d) she wants to continue it indefinitely

5. How does Ava feel towards Imani?
(a) jealous
(b) bored
(c) annoyed
(d) happy

6. What does Ava envy about Joyce and Mitch?
(a) their romance
(b) their home
(c) their children
(d) their money

7. What has Joyce been trying to convince Eddie to do?
(a) open a restaurant
(b) attend church
(c) get a dog
(d) get married

8. With whom is Ava spending a lot of time in her second month?
(a) Gerry
(b) Donald
(c) Nancy Underwood
(d) Eddie

9. What was Ava doing with the person in her dream?
(a) holding hands
(b) talking
(c) dancing
(d) singing

10. What did the area of Idlewild on the lake used to be when Ava was young?
(a) recreational haven for black people
(b) a public beach area
(c) all white neighborhood
(d) a state park

11. What did the mother do with the baby?
(a) abandoned her
(b) gave her to her mother
(c) gave her to the father
(d) abused her

12. How has Ava's romantic life been up to the point of the beginning of the book?
(a) boring
(b) wonderful
(c) not satisfying
(d) she had no love life

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

14. From whom did Joyce receive a letter in July?
(a) a wealthy uncle
(b) Reverend Anderson
(c) an ex-boyfriend
(d) a friend from college

15. What does Ava do when she sees Eddie?
(a) she sprays him with water
(b) she sits on the lawn where he can't see her
(c) she watches him
(d) she walks past the house

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Joyce fearful about Imani?

2. What do Joyce and Ava do the night Gerry came over?

3. What does the new preacher's wife do on Sunday?

4. What do Eddie, Joyce and Ava do about the baby Joyce brought home?

5. Why does Ava decide to move?

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