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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Ava ask Eddie to stop on the way home?
(a) the liquor store
(b) a drugstore
(c) a fast food joint
(d) Wal-mart

3. In what place did Ava dream she was walking?
(a) in Eddie's garden
(b) on a beach
(c) a graveyard
(d) her house in Atlanta

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

5. How does Ava feel about the meals Joyce and Eddie cook?
(a) she's indifferent
(b) she thinks they're okay
(c) she loves them
(d) she hates them

6. What does Joyce feel is part of her mission with the girls?
(a) to get them husbands
(b) to adopt their babies
(c) to pay for their education
(d) to educate them

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

8. What was the baby tested for and found negative?
(a) hydrocephalus
(b) HIV
(c) tuberculosis
(d) sickle cell anemia

9. Why is Aretha one of Joyce's favorite girls from the Sewing Circus?
(a) she is related to Joyce
(b) she takes good care of her baby
(c) she has common sense
(d) she is failing school

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

11. What do Ava and Eddie talk about when they go inside?
(a) his mother
(b) how he feels about HIV
(c) his education
(d) his time in Vietnam

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

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

14. What does Joyce show Ava is in the envelope Ava has?
(a) a newspaper article
(b) pamphlets about AIDS
(c) some old family photos
(d) her new will

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of encounter does Ava have with two young men after she got her medicine?

3. What does Ava wonder about as far as romance goes?

4. How does Ava feel about what she sees and hears the first Sunday at Joyce's church?

5. What is wrong with the baby Joyce helped deliver the night Ava arrived?

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