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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the basic goal of the Sewing Circus?
(a) to get young girls jobs
(b) to sell quilts at Christmas
(c) help young black women take care of themselves
(d) to help pregnant teenagers

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

5. How does Ava feel about her experience with Eddie the night before?
(a) happy and upbeat
(b) confused
(c) frightened
(d) okay

6. What does Joyce develop for the Sewing Circus?
(a) new ideas to deal with
(b) a formal agenda
(c) new resources
(d) a mission statement

7. What kind of information does Ava receive about the Andersons?
(a) that they have had children taken away from them
(b) that Gerry is a closet lesbian
(c) that the Reverend has been caught with young men
(d) that he is not a licensed minister

8. How is the issue finally resolved?
(a) it's not resolved
(b) the boys will do community service
(c) the boys' license will be suspended
(d) Gerry will pay for the window

9. What is Ava thinking about as she runs through the woods?
(a) how she can marry Eddie
(b) how she can say no to Eddie
(c) how she can't have sex
(d) how she has never wanted to marry

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

11. What do they find has happened to Imani?
(a) her head is hurt
(b) her legs are broken
(c) she has been burned
(d) she has bruises on her ribs

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

13. What do Ava and Eddie spend a lot of time doing?
(a) renovating Johnny's house
(b) listening to music
(c) taking care of children
(d) walking in the woods

14. What does Ava do with her information about the Reverend?
(a) tells the sheriff
(b) announces it to the church
(c) puts it in the newspaper
(d) confronts Gerry

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gerry do about the information?

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

3. Where has Ava been trying to see Eddie?

4. What does Ava do for Aretha?

5. Why does Ava feel satisfied about her interaction with Aretha?

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