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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joyce develop for the Sewing Circus?
(a) new resources
(b) a mission statement
(c) a formal agenda
(d) new ideas to deal with

2. Why did black people first start coming to Idlewild?
(a) to form a militant commune
(b) it was a haven from the city
(c) to build an all black community
(d) because the lake was pretty

3. What is Ava thinking about as she runs through the woods?
(a) how she can't have sex
(b) how she has never wanted to marry
(c) how she can marry Eddie
(d) how she can say no to Eddie

4. How does Ava feel about Eddie's response to her talk with him?
(a) sad
(b) angry
(c) fine
(d) indifferent

5. What do Eddie and Ava decide when they meet?
(a) to play it cool for a while
(b) to talk to Joyce about dating
(c) to stay strictly friends
(d) to see each other that night

6. Why does Ava run out of the house when Eddie asks her to marry him?
(a) because of being HIV positive
(b) she's already married
(c) Joyce would be hurt if they married
(d) she doesn't love him that way

7. Where does Ava go when she wakes up?
(a) to the church
(b) for a morning walk
(c) to the store
(d) to the library

8. What did one of the boys throw through the window?
(a) a brick
(b) a baseball
(c) an empty beer bottle
(d) a rock

9. How does Joyce feel about Eddie and Ava?
(a) depressed
(b) jealous
(c) delighted
(d) hesitant

10. What does the hospital say after they treat Imani?
(a) she'll limp for life
(b) she will have intellectual problems
(c) she'll make a full recovery
(d) her burns aren't treatable

11. What time does Ava wake up the morning after she had sex with Eddie?
(a) six A.M.
(b) eight A.M.
(c) noon
(d) ten A.M.

12. What do Ava and Eddie spend a lot of time doing?
(a) listening to music
(b) renovating Johnny's house
(c) taking care of children
(d) walking in the woods

13. What is one of the things that bothers Ava about marriage and being HIV positive?
(a) using protection with her husband
(b) not having children
(c) Eddie having to nurse her eventually
(d) what others will say about Eddie

14. Why did Ava wake up when a car pulled in at Joyce's?
(a) the lights shine in her room
(b) Eddie was supposed to come over
(c) she wasn't expecting anyone
(d) the car backfired

15. Where does the meeting about Joyce's house take place?
(a) the sheriff's office
(b) the church
(c) Joyce's house
(d) in a coffee shop

Short Answer Questions

1. In what three areas does Joyce want to deal with in the Circus?

2. To what does Ava tell Eddie no?

3. How does Ava feel about keeping Imani by herself?

4. What kind of information does Ava receive about the Andersons?

5. What does Eddie do after Johnny Mack's house purchase is completed?

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