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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Eddie suggest to Ava about the boys?
2. How is the issue finally resolved?
3. What does Ava do for Aretha?
4. How does Ava feel about Eddie's response to her talk with him?
5. Where does Ava meet Eddie again after the night he told her about his jail time?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Two themes present themselves in these chapters: adversity and ignorance.
1. Explain what you think this statement means. Use examples from the book to support your answer.
2. What do you think are the best ways to change people who are ignorant about social issues? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. Do you think Reverend Anderson's behavior in kicking Joyce from the church room reflects a harmful or helpful attitude on the part of a minister? Why or why not?
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
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?
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