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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joyce demonstrate the use of condoms?

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

3. How does Joyce feel towards Imani?

4. What is wrong with the baby Joyce helped deliver the night Ava arrived?

5. What has Joyce been trying to convince Eddie to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ava think about the lifestyle that gave her HIV and for what does she grieve?

2. How does the new minister seem to be working out?

3. What happens on the way home from the airport?

4. What does Joyce say about the content of the envelope?

5. What is the goal of the Sewing Circus?

6. Who visits Joyce regularly and what do they do?

7. Who does Joyce see as a shining example for the other girls and why?

8. How does Ava feel when leaving church?

9. What does Joyce decide to do about the damage to her window?

10. What does Ava see at Joyce's house and how does she feel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The self-righteous behavior of Gerry Anderson, although not appropriate, has new light shed on it when it becomes clear that she must be constantly protecting her drunken husband.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think Gerry Anderson would be a different person if her husband was different? Why or why not?

3. How do you think people's home life are reflected in the face they show the world? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Gerry Anderson has told Mattie that taking back the child will also guarantee the young girl the monthly income provided by the foster care system.

1. Do you think mothers who cannot support their children should be supported by the government? Why or why not?

2. If you were a judge who had to decide where Imani should live what would you decide? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Eddie succumbed to the lowest depths of the drug and street lifestyle and ended up committing murder, for which he paid with ten years of his life. Fortunately, Eddie had found redemption after adversity, though there is also a sense that Eddie still walks a fine line to maintain his forward focus.

1. What do you think is meant by redemption after adversity? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Eddie still walks a fine line to maintain his forward focus? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Why do you think people like Eddie decide to change and are able to do so? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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