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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Eddie and Ava decide when they meet?
(a) to stay strictly friends
(b) to see each other that night
(c) to play it cool for a while
(d) to talk to Joyce about dating

2. What does Eddie do after Johnny Mack's house purchase is completed?
(a) helps Johnny move
(b) asks Ava to marry him
(c) moves into it
(d) begins renovations

3. Where has Ava been trying to see Eddie?
(a) She has driven by his house a few times
(b) She has been avoiding him
(c) She hasn't been actively seeking him
(d) She has gone by his work place

4. Where does Ava meet Eddie again after the night he told her about his jail time?
(a) at Joyce's
(b) at the library
(c) at the grocery store
(d) at a gas station

5. What do Ava and Eddie think Frank represents?
(a) the disadvantages of being poor
(b) negative sterotype about black people
(c) the problem with the child welfare system
(d) a young man who needs to find his way

6. What did one of the boys throw through the window?
(a) a rock
(b) a baseball
(c) a brick
(d) an empty beer bottle

7. What does Eddie say to Ava as they're walking?
(a) he doesn't want anything permanent
(b) he is worried
(c) he loves her
(d) he has taken a job in San Fransico

8. Why does Joyce decide to visit the state capitol?
(a) she wants to get away from the baby's crying
(b) she has to file an appeal in person
(c) she felt like getting out of town
(d) she couldn't get the right person on the phone

9. Why does Imani's mother want her child back?
(a) to get money from the system
(b) she loves her
(c) her mother wants the child
(d) the father wants to marry her

10. What does the social worker tell Joyce to do about Imani?
(a) invite the mother to live with her
(b) file papers for custody
(c) give her to the hospital
(d) run away with her

11. In what three areas does Joyce want to deal with in the Circus?
(a) financial, material and spiritual
(b) eating, exercise and health
(c) reading, math and history
(d) praying, reading the Bible and going to church

12. How do Ava and Eddie feel when they see each other?
(a) irritated
(b) indifferent
(c) glad
(d) reserved

13. What has Ava determined to do with Eddie?
(a) marry him
(b) tell him her HIV status
(c) stay friends
(d) avoid him

14. Of what do Eddie and Ava finally convince Joyce?
(a) to start dating again
(b) to move to a better neighborhood
(c) to keep a gun in the house
(d) to go back to school

15. What does the couple do the night Ava went to his house to talk with him?
(a) make love
(b) watch a movie
(c) meditate in the garden
(d) have dinner

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ava what to avoid the day she meets Eddie again?

2. What does Ava do for Aretha?

3. How does Ava feel about her experience with Eddie the night before?

4. What do Ava and Eddie spend a lot of time doing?

5. To what does Ava tell Eddie no?

(see the answer keys)

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