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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 gamble
(b) not being able to dance
(c) fire and brimstone
(d) not being a good person

2. What does Ava involve herself in work that summer?
(a) as a hair stylist
(b) in Eddie's store
(c) as a teacher
(d) the Sewing Circus

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

4. What does Ava think about the new preacher's competency in the pulpit?
(a) boring
(b) not great for a small church
(c) indifferent
(d) awesome

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

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

7. What does Joyce encourage Ava to do about Eddie and him going to jail?
(a) ask his brother
(b) drop it
(c) talk to him
(d) ask the police

8. What does Ava see as opportunity when around the new minister's wife?
(a) for fun
(b) for joy
(c) for grief
(d) for boring conversations

9. What does Joyce get so excited about telling Ava?
(a) the baby's arrival the next day
(b) the new shoe store downtown
(c) the newest member of the Sewing Circus
(d) her date with Eddie that night

10. How does Joyce seem to be feeling at the beginning of the book?
(a) happy
(b) sad
(c) more positive
(d) angry

11. What kind of encounter does Ava have with two young men after she got her medicine?
(a) they make derogatory comments about her
(b) they mug her
(c) they spit on her
(d) they grabbed her and started pulling her in the car

12. Why did Ava ask Joyce about Eddie's jail time?
(a) she wanted to know how long
(b) she wanted to know why
(c) she asked how many times he'd been to jail
(d) she wanted to know where

13. How does Joyce feel about the girls' progress in the last six months?
(a) not much progress has been made
(b) they are moving slowly
(c) a huge amount has happened
(d) she doesn't think about progress

14. What does Ava figure out about the love life she had that gave her HIV?
(a) it was fulfilling
(b) it was all bland
(c) she'd like to be able to go back to that life style
(d) it was wonderful

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the main aspects of Ava's circle of friends' lifestyle she didn't like?

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

3. Why does Eddie meet Ava at the airport?

4. What happened to Joyce on the eve of her wedding?

5. What kind of movie do Eddie and Ava go to see?

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