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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ava hear when she goes to get her medicine?
(a) the pharmacist talking on the phone about her
(b) Joyce's neighbor complaining about her
(c) Gerry Anderson talking about Joyce
(d) the pharmacist discussing it with Gerry Anderson

2. Who walks in the room while Joyce is demonstrating condoms?
(a) the minister's wife
(b) Eddie
(c) Ava
(d) no one

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

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

5. How does Joyce feel towards Imani?
(a) irritated
(b) very attached
(c) indifferent
(d) very possessive

6. What is the group that Joyce is a member of called?
(a) the Sewing Circus
(b) there is no group name
(c) the High Road
(d) the Force of Change

7. Why does Ava decide to move?
(a) her health
(b) her mother needs her
(c) her daughter needs a better school
(d) her boyfriend left

8. Why does Imani whimper?
(a) wants to be picked up
(b) she doesn't whimper
(c) wants to be fed
(d) she's going through withdrawal

9. Who does Ava plan to see during her move?
(a) her grandmother
(b) her sister
(c) her father
(d) her best friend from high school

10. What does Joyce do with the baby?
(a) gives her to Ava
(b) gives her to Child Welfare
(c) leaves her at the hospital
(d) brings her home

11. What does Ava feel is one of Gerry's major character flaws?
(a) too religious
(b) too judgmental
(c) too shy
(d) too loud and overbearing

12. Where does Joyce's group meet?
(a) the library
(b) the church
(c) the YMCA
(d) the hospital

13. How does Ava see the difference in the condition of homes in the area near the lake from the last time she was there?
(a) they are fully integrated
(b) they are poor and grubby looking
(c) they are much nicer
(d) they are about the same

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

15. Why does Ava say everyone needs something to lean on?
(a) to have someone to hate
(b) to keep from tumbling
(c) to be able to hike long distances
(d) to keep standing up

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Joyce fearful about Imani?

2. Who doesn't approve of Joyce's group?

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

4. From whom did Joyce receive a letter in July?

5. Where does Aretha want to go to school?

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