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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way was Isaiah related to Josephine before his death?
(a) Father.
(b) Uncle.
(c) Husband.
(d) Brother.

2. How many clients show up to Hazel's house for the meeting led by Ava in Gladys's absence?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. To whom was Josephine referring in 1855 when she remarked to Missus that "a new man" (115) had arrived at Wildwood?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Jericho.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Jupiter.

4. To whom does Ava nearly place a call after she leaves the book club meeting?
(a) Byron.
(b) Gladys.
(c) King.
(d) Senait.

5. When Ava wakes up in the middle of the night and finds a pigeon outside her window, what sound does she hear first?
(a) Singing.
(b) Moaning.
(c) Rattling.
(d) Chanting.

6. On what part of Charlotte's body does Josephine first notice an injury inflicted by Vern?
(a) Her arm.
(b) Her nose.
(c) Her ankle.
(d) Her eye.

7. Who tells Missus the location of her missing item(s)?
(a) Winnie.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Fred.
(d) Josephine.

8. With what activity does Charlotte say she has been busy when she says that she will try to visit Josephine the following day?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Reading.
(c) Her group.
(d) Carpentry.

9. How many slaves had their heads "speared on posts dotting the Mississippi River" (122) in association with the Travis plot?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

10. How many months pregnant is Eliza when there is a dispute over a tree?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

11. Link tells Josephine that white people are incapable of being friends with black people, since "they think friend mean" (143) what?
(a) Mule.
(b) Patsy.
(c) Enemy.
(d) Nothing.

12. Josephine remarks to herself during the exchange between Major and Vern at Major and Eliza's door that she feels what way about Major's display of respect to Vern?
(a) Sad.
(b) Proud.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Angry.

13. What adjective does Josephine use to describe her spirit in the moment she hastily tells Charlotte about Eliza's pregnancy?
(a) Deflated.
(b) Buoyant.
(c) Ethereal.
(d) Full.

14. Who tells Major that he ought not to "let a man treat you like a dog too many times," lest "you start to feel like one" (211)?
(a) Link.
(b) Josephine.
(c) Louis.
(d) Eliza.

15. Josephine offers to bring what objects for Vern's perusal before he rejects her offer?
(a) Blueprints.
(b) Maps.
(c) Deeds.
(d) Topography measurements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ava finds that she has missed how many calls about her Grandma Martha a few days after Gladys's welcome-home party?

2. From whom does Sally procure the dollar piece that she later gives to Josephine?

3. Which character does Jericho mention during the game of whist that causes Josephine to pace the floor all night?

4. When Josephine talks to Major about survival, she knows that which other character is also listening?

5. At what time of day does Ava visit her mother in the hospital after she is admitted for coughing up blood?

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