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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gerry do about the information?
2. Who is Tyrone's father?
3. What is one of the things that bothers Ava about marriage and being HIV positive?
4. How do Ava and Joyce find Reverend Anderson when they visit him?
5. What does the social worker tell Joyce to do about Imani?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
Gerry Anderson, the minister's wife, is the epitome of self righteous, judgmental behavior.
1. Do you think this statement is true? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
2. Tell about a situation you or someone you know was confronted with a judgmental person.
3. Do you think a person has the right to judge others and tell others how to behave? Why or why not?
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