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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 Lana tell Sylvia about what is wrong with Ava?
(a) Lana tells Sylvia that Henry has been arrested.
(b) Lana tells Sylvia that Henry has another woman.
(c) Lana tells Sylvia that Henry has lost his job.
(d) Lana tells Sylvia that Ava is seeing JJ.

2. What did Lana call her shop?
(a) Hair-Apy.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Malcolm's.
(d) Beautiful You.

3. Where did Ava's and JJ's brief romance from years earlier take place?
(a) Ava's college dorm room.
(b) The woods in Pinewood.
(c) JJ's house.
(d) The reservoir.

4. Who bought Devon some food at McDonald's in Chapter 30?
(a) A stranger named Jimmy Patterson.
(b) Ava.
(c) Joy.
(d) Sylvia.

5. What feeling about JJ's house could Sylvia not even admit to herself that she harbored?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Resignation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ava do at the reservoir?

2. Who calls Ava at the beginning of Chapter 19 who she has not spoken to in years?

3. What does Ava tell JJ she has just discovered about Henry?

4. What does Ava accuse Sylvia of doing years earlier in Chapter 32?

5. What is Lana's husband's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sylvia decide not to go through with her errand for Marcus in Chapter 22 after all?

2. What memory about working for a white family does Don share with Jonnie in Chapter 25?

3. In Chapter 27, what does JJ remember about doing together with his father when he was a child?

4. Why is JJ hesitant to bring Ava to Simmy's to eat the first time he sees her in Pinewood after decades?

5. What does Sylvia tell Lana about Devon in Chapter 29 that deeply disturbs Lana?

6. What does Ava do when she visits the reservoir with JJ in Chapter 34 that is dangerous and unexpected?

7. Why does Sylvia go with Ava to the doctor every time she goes to get a pregnancy-related test?

8. In Chapter 27, what does JJ remember about what happened in his childhood after his father won a big hand at poker?

9. When JJ calls Ava in Chapter 19, how does she realize her feelings for him differ from her feelings for Henry?

10. What does Ava tell JJ in Chapter 20 about how she felt toward Henry's child when she first saw him?

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