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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the minister's wife prohibit Joyce from doing?
(a) talking to the parents
(b) letting the young girls go on trips
(c) teaching about AIDS
(d) preaching to the Sewing Circus

2. What was Ava doing with the person in her dream?
(a) talking
(b) dancing
(c) holding hands
(d) singing

3. What do Joyce and Ava do the night Gerry came over?
(a) take a moonlight swim
(b) get drunk
(c) throw a party
(d) go bar hopping

4. What does Ava think about the baby's life to come?
(a) the baby will stay an addict
(b) it won't be a good one
(c) Ava will be in San Fransico
(d) she will probably miss some of it

5. Who doesn't approve of Joyce's group?
(a) Gerry Anderson
(b) Ava
(c) her grandmother
(d) Eddie

6. What is one of Ava's big objections to Baptist teachings?
(a) not being able to gamble
(b) not being a good person
(c) fire and brimstone
(d) not being able to dance

7. Where does Aretha want to go to school?
(a) Julliard
(b) Interlochen
(c) Snider
(d) Witney-Combs

8. What does Ava think about the new preacher's competency in the pulpit?
(a) not great for a small church
(b) awesome
(c) boring
(d) indifferent

9. What does Ava hear when she goes to get her medicine?
(a) the pharmacist talking on the phone about her
(b) the pharmacist discussing it with Gerry Anderson
(c) Joyce's neighbor complaining about her
(d) Gerry Anderson talking about Joyce

10. With whom does Joyce work?
(a) gang members
(b) everyone
(c) black girls
(d) she works alone

11. What is Eddie doing when Ava arrives at his house?
(a) watering the lawn
(b) pau kwa
(c) t'ai chi
(d) washing his car

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

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

14. Why is Ava remaining celibate?
(a) she hasn't met any guys
(b) because of being HIV positive
(c) she has to take care of the baby too much
(d) she is too sick for sex

15. What does Eddie tell Ava was the crime that put him in jail?
(a) he hit someone with his car
(b) he broke into a house
(c) he was dealing drugs
(d) he killed two people

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eddie do while they talk?

2. What does Ava involve herself in work that summer?

3. Where has Joyce decided the Sewing Circus will meet?

4. When does Joyce think the Sewing Circus is going to end?

5. What is Ava told about the break-ins?

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