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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do Ava and Joyce find Reverend Anderson when they visit him?
2. Where does the meeting about Joyce's house take place?
3. What does the social worker tell Joyce to do about Imani?
4. What do Joyce and Ava find in the house?
5. What does Eddie say to Ava as they're walking?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Joyce asks for the opportunity to address the boys herself. Joyce symbolizes the compassion and understanding that is so lacking in the lives of these kids, whose futures seem dim if they don't receive some sort of positive intervention.
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 compassion is more powerful than punishment in changing a person? Why or why not?
3. If your house was vandalized by kids what would you want to do about it?
Essay Topic 2
The theme of rising above adversity continues to thread throughout the book, and the author reveals some of the mechanisms that people use to accomplish that feat.
1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. What do you think are some of the mechanisms people use to cope with adversity? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
The summer has reached its climax for the main characters. The author has positioned each of the characters in the way of tremendous conflict so that each may know what matters most to them, and what they are prepared to do when threat emerges.
1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. What do you think Joyce should do about Imani? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. Why do you think Ava would run when Eddie asks her to marry? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
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