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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the two boys in the car do?
(a) have sex with the girl in the car
(b) shoot into the house
(c) run over the garden
(d) played loud music

2. 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

3. Why did black people first start coming to Idlewild?
(a) to build an all black community
(b) it was a haven from the city
(c) because the lake was pretty
(d) to form a militant commune

4. What does Joyce do about the boys when she comes home?
(a) recruits their girlfriend for the Sewing Circus
(b) files a police report
(c) vandalizes their car
(d) calls their parents

5. What do Eddie, Joyce and Ava do to ensure Imani's safety when with her mother?
(a) hide a microphone in Mattie's house
(b) watch the house all weekend
(c) hire a body guard
(d) tell the sheriff to go by often

6. Why does Ava feel satisfied about her interaction with Aretha?
(a) that Aretha idolizes her
(b) that Aretha does what Ava says
(c) that Aretha asks so many questions
(d) that she helped her self esteem

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

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

9. What do Ava and Joyce hear while watching Mattie's house?
(a) hammers and saws being used
(b) Frank beating Mattie
(c) Imani crying
(d) gunshots

10. Why won't Joyce do what Eddie wants her to do?
(a) it's too expensive
(b) she's too frightened
(c) it's against her religion
(d) she thinks the best of everyone

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

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

13. What do Ava and Eddie think about Frank's behavior towards Imani?
(a) he probably didn't do it
(b) Imani probably provoked him
(c) he's was just not thinking
(d) there's no reason for it

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

15. Where does Ava go when she wakes up?
(a) to the library
(b) to the church
(c) to the store
(d) for a morning walk

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ava meet Eddie again after the night he told her about his jail time?

2. What does Johnny Mack tell Eddie?

3. Why does Ava run out of the house when Eddie asks her to marry him?

4. What does Joyce develop for the Sewing Circus?

5. Why does Imani's mother want her child back?

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