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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of job did Ava have?
(a) hair salon owner
(b) secretary
(c) lawyer
(d) bank teller

2. What is wrong with the baby Joyce helped deliver the night Ava arrived?
(a) addicted to crack
(b) has a deformed head
(c) has a heart murmur
(d) is too large

3. Where is Ava from originally?
(a) Tulsa, Oklahoma
(b) Idlewild, Michigan
(c) Dallas, Texas
(d) Orlando, Florida

4. What does Ava involve herself in work that summer?
(a) in Eddie's store
(b) as a hair stylist
(c) the Sewing Circus
(d) as a teacher

5. What does Ava figure out about the love life she had that gave her HIV?
(a) it was fulfilling
(b) she'd like to be able to go back to that life style
(c) it was all bland
(d) it was wonderful

6. How does Eddie wear his hair?
(a) dyed blond and spiked
(b) he's bald
(c) in dreadlocks
(d) short, military style

7. What does Ava do with Gerry when she comes over?
(a) serves her iced tea
(b) slaps her in the face
(c) sits and talks with her
(d) doesn't invite her inside

8. What does Ava prefer over the teachings of the Baptist Church?
(a) Episcopal
(b) Christian Science
(c) Buddhism
(d) atheism

9. What does Ava see as opportunity when around the new minister's wife?
(a) for grief
(b) for fun
(c) for boring conversations
(d) for joy

10. Where does Joyce's group meet?
(a) the YMCA
(b) the library
(c) the church
(d) the hospital

11. What is the group that Joyce is a member of called?
(a) the High Road
(b) the Sewing Circus
(c) there is no group name
(d) the Force of Change

12. Who else was in Ava's dream?
(a) Mitch
(b) Gerry Anderson
(c) Joyce
(d) Eddie

13. How does Ava get her medicine for the HIV?
(a) her Atlanta physician phones it in
(b) it is mailed to her
(c) she has a doctor in Idlewild
(d) she gets it from the health department

14. What happens when Eddie and Ava are stopped?
(a) they discover they have no money
(b) the tire on the car goes flat
(c) Ava gets sick
(d) a man starts to fight with a girl

15. How does Joyce demonstrate the use of condoms?
(a) with jumbo hot dogs
(b) on a carved stick
(c) with clay
(d) with water

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ava hear when she goes to get her medicine?

2. What is one of Ava's big objections to Baptist teachings?

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

4. With whom is Ava spending a lot of time in her second month?

5. How does Ava feel about the Sewing Circus being held at the house the night she got her medicine?

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