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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. What does Sylvia tell Devon that JJ told her about a memory from their youth?
(a) That Devon and JJ used to drink together.
(b) That Devon and JJ used to trade clothes.
(c) That Devon had once cut JJ's hair.
(d) That people always thought Devon and JJ were brothers.

2. Who does Henry go to see at Simmy's in Chapter 7?
(a) Ava.
(b) Carrie.
(c) Mae.
(d) Jonnie.

3. What is Jonnie's and Mae's relationship?
(a) They are sisters.
(b) They are daughter and mother.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are niece and aunt.

4. When was the only time in her life when Sylvia says she liked her body?
(a) When she was the thinnest she ever was, at about age 25.
(b) When she was pregnant and was supposed to look heavier.
(c) When she was a small child.
(d) Now, when she is a much older woman.

5. How old is Ava at the beginning of the book?
(a) 38.
(b) 45.
(c) 55.
(d) 27.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ava fear about Henry in Chapter 11?

2. What does Sylvia say she will bring Marcus when she comes to visit him in jail?

3. Who runs the restaurant Don has started frequenting in Chapter 12?

4. Who is Jonnie's daughter?

5. Where does Ava go when she leaves the Rowan in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does JJ always call Sylvia?

2. How does Sylvia feel about JJ Ferguson?

3. Where does Ava reveal the most personal details of her anguish over her infertility?

4. What problem has Ava been struggling with for years that becomes apparent in Chapter 3?

5. How do Marcus and Sylvia first become connected?

6. What kinds of things does Sylvia encourage Marcus to do?

7. What happens in Chapter 12 when Sylvia calls Devon?

8. How does Sylvia feel about her son in-law, Henry?

9. What was Sylvia's impression of Alice Graham, JJ's grandmother who took him in after his father killed his mother?

10. How does Sylvia respond to JJ when he tells her he still has feelings for Ava?

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