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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Aretha want to go to school?
(a) Julliard
(b) Interlochen
(c) Witney-Combs
(d) Snider

4. How does Ava feel about what she sees and hears the first Sunday at Joyce's church?
(a) indifferent
(b) bored
(c) moved
(d) angry

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

6. How many of the girls attended the first meeting at Joyce's house?
(a) all of them
(b) half of them
(c) only two
(d) none of them

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

8. Why does Joyce go to the hospital?
(a) Eddie is there
(b) she broke her arm
(c) to make arrangements for the baby
(d) one of her girls is sick

9. What was the difference in the conversation at Joyce's house as opposed to the church?
(a) the girls were more reserved and shy
(b) it was about the same
(c) there was more freedom
(d) it was more stifled

10. How is Joyce's house described?
(a) stark and modern
(b) messy and dirty
(c) cozy but empty
(d) overly cluttered and pampered

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

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

13. What does Ava prefer over the teachings of the Baptist Church?
(a) Buddhism
(b) atheism
(c) Episcopal
(d) Christian Science

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

15. 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 about the same
(b) they are fully integrated
(c) they are much nicer
(d) they are poor and grubby looking

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eddie do while they talk?

2. How does Ava feel about life in general following church on Sunday?

3. How does Ava feel about the meals Joyce and Eddie cook?

4. What did the area of Idlewild on the lake used to be when Ava was young?

5. Who walks in the room while Joyce is demonstrating condoms?

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