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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Joyce want the girls to know about AIDS?
(a) to save their lives
(b) to keep their babies healthy
(c) to irritate Gerry
(d) so they won't sin and have sex

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

3. How does Ava feel about the new preacher at Joyce's church?
(a) angry
(b) indifferent
(c) impressed
(d) irritated

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

5. What does Joyce do for a living?
(a) teacher
(b) nurse
(c) social worker
(d) lawyer

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

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

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

9. 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

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

11. What was one of the main aspects of Ava's circle of friends' lifestyle she didn't like?
(a) illicit drug use
(b) spendthrift
(c) too religious
(d) promiscuity

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

13. What is one of Ava's big objections to Baptist teachings?
(a) not being able to dance
(b) not being able to gamble
(c) not being a good person
(d) fire and brimstone

14. 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 much nicer
(c) they are fully integrated
(d) they are poor and grubby looking

15. Why does Ava think Eddie is so easygoing and graceful?
(a) he is gay
(b) he has nothing to prove
(c) he is drugged
(d) he is slightly drunk

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ava get her medicine for the HIV?

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

3. What time did the last girl leave the Sewing Circus at the first meeting at Joyce's house?

4. In what season has Ava arrived in Idlewild?

5. Why does Joyce go to the hospital?

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