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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ava say everyone needs something to lean on?
(a) to keep standing up
(b) to keep from tumbling
(c) to have someone to hate
(d) to be able to hike long distances

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

3. What does Joyce tell Ava about Eddie's jail time?
(a) how long he'd been in
(b) nothing
(c) why he went there
(d) that she had visited him

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

5. How has Ava's romantic life been up to the point of the beginning of the book?
(a) wonderful
(b) she had no love life
(c) not satisfying
(d) boring

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joyce feel about the reputation of the group with some people?

2. Why does Joyce go to the hospital?

3. With whom is Ava spending a lot of time in her second month?

4. How does Joyce demonstrate the use of condoms?

5. What does Joyce get so excited about telling Ava?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the success of the Sewing Circus move Joyce to do?

2. Where does Ava live at the beginning of the book and what kind of benefits does that place offer?

3. Why has Mattie come to Joyce's house and what happens?

4. What does Eddie do about Frank and Mattie?

5. Why did the Sewing Circus meeting a Joyce's house go so well?

6. How does Joyce demonstrate condoms and what happens while she's doing it?

7. What has Reverend Anderson sent Joyce and why?

8. What does Ava tell Joyce when she returns from Eddie's after the Sewing Circus?

9. What does Joyce say about the content of the envelope?

10. What do the doctors say about Imani?

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