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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ava doing with the person in her dream?

2. What does Ava think about the new preacher's competency in the pulpit?

3. From whom did Joyce receive a letter in July?

4. Where does Eddie invite Ava for the evening?

5. What do Joyce and Ava do the night Gerry came over?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Ava and Joyce watch Frank and Mattie's house?

2. How does Joyce feel about Reverend Anderson's stand and what does she intend?

3. How does Ava feel when leaving church?

4. What do Eddie and Ava do in November?

5. What happens on the way home from the airport?

6. What do Eddie and Ava want Joyce to do and how do they try to convince her?

7. What does Ava do the first time the Sewing Circus meets at Joyce's?

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

9. What does Ava see when a car pulls into the driveway while Joyce is out of town?

10. What does Ava think about the lifestyle that gave her HIV and for what does she grieve?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Clearly, the adversity faced by Eddie and Ava has provided each of them with not only a tolerance for situations that are far from perfect, but also respect for the core of the other person.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think if Eddie had had no problems in his life he would have accepted Ava as well? Why or why not.

3. Do you think adversity is necessary in order to make a person tolerance? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Joyce asks for the opportunity to address the boys herself. Joyce symbolizes the compassion and understanding that is so lacking in the lives of these kids, whose futures seem dim if they don't receive some sort of positive intervention.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think compassion is more powerful than punishment in changing a person? Why or why not?

3. If your house was vandalized by kids what would you want to do about it?

Essay Topic 3

Ava is re-learning love in her attachment to Imani and finds herself capable of more than she had ever dreamed possible.

1. What do you think this statement means? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think an adult can learn anything from a baby? Why or why not?

3. Do you think someone can "forget" love and have to "re-learn" it? Why or why not?

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