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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the minister's wife prohibit Joyce from doing?
(a) preaching to the Sewing Circus
(b) letting the young girls go on trips
(c) teaching about AIDS
(d) talking to the parents

3. How does Joyce demonstrate the use of condoms?
(a) with water
(b) with clay
(c) on a carved stick
(d) with jumbo hot dogs

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

5. How did Gerry react to the content of the envelope?
(a) she felt it was helpful
(b) she had no feelings on it
(c) she was happy
(d) felt it was inappropriate for the Sewing Circus

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

7. What does the new preacher's wife do on Sunday?
(a) runs the kitchen
(b) Sunday school director
(c) does nothing
(d) choir director

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

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

10. In what season has Ava arrived in Idlewild?
(a) fall
(b) summer
(c) spring
(d) winter

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

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

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

14. What is Eddie doing when Ava arrives at his house?
(a) watering the lawn
(b) t'ai chi
(c) pau kwa
(d) washing his car

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ava promise Aretha if she goes to Interlochen?

2. What does Joyce do for a living?

3. How does Ava feel about the Sewing Circus being held at the house the night she got her medicine?

4. Whose arrival in Joyce's house brings joy?

5. With whom does Joyce work?

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