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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Ava worry that she has gone from HIV positive to full blown AIDS?
2. What is the basic goal of the Sewing Circus?
3. What does Ava do for Aretha?
4. What do Eddie, Joyce and Ava do to ensure Imani's safety when with her mother?
5. How is the issue finally resolved?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Cleage makes the case for an alternate view on the stereotypes assigned to black people by introducing people like Joyce, Ava and Eddie, whose goodness may be challenged at times but is always at the core of what they do.
1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. What do you think people can do to not judge others by stereotypes? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. How do you think stereotypes get started and how can they be stopped? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
After all the lessons and social commentary throughout the book, the author finishes with the most hopeful one of all: the fact that there are possibilities for new beginnings.
1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. Describe a new beginning you or someone you know has had. Show how it might relate to the characters in this book.
3. Why do you think beginning a new path in life takes courage? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
The minister's wife symbolizes a large part of the nation's population, including a few religious fundamentalists, who think that people bring AIDS on themselves and probably deserve it as payment for immoral behavior.
1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
2. If one said that anyone with AIDS deserve it would you think that would mean that people with colon cancer deserved it because they didn't eat enough fiber, or people with liver cancer deserved it from drinking, or people with diabetes deserved it from eating too many sweets, etc.? Explain your reasoning and use examples from the book to support your thinking.
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