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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many clients are at Gladys's home when Ava arrives for her visit?
(a) 3.
(b) 13.
(c) 21.
(d) 7.

2. How far down the road from Josephine's farm does Link live?
(a) One-quarter of a mile.
(b) Three-quarters of a mile.
(c) Two miles.
(d) One-half of a mile.

3. Ava has noticed that King likes to produce what type of writing?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Song lyrics.
(c) Short stories.
(d) Novels.

4. Josephine reminds Jericho that the first time they had met Eliza, she had been wearing what kind of flower in her hair?
(a) A poppy.
(b) A violet.
(c) A daffodil.
(d) A peony.

5. When the novel begins, in what year is the first section of the text set?
(a) 2017.
(b) 1855.
(c) 2006.
(d) 1924.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the sharecropper for whom Josephine and her husband work after the Civil War?

2. Who is the character named Byron?

3. The group called the Revisioners was made up of how many members?

4. In what city does The Revisioners take place?

5. Josephine proclaims it impossible to take what action when it comes to her friend Link?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action of Josephine's causes Aristide to surrender to her way of thinking?

2. What important item do Ava and King forget when they move to a new place at the start of the novel?

3. Who is Senait?

4. What aspect of Gladys's health worries Ava, though she tries not to think about it?

5. What type of help does Charlotte request from Josephine and what is Josephine's response?

6. What major career change did Ava's mother Gladys make once she had practiced law for 20 years and why?

7. Josephine says she had been sure that her eldest daughter would remain by her side throughout their lives. What happens to prevent this outcome?

8. Name two benefits of Ava's decision to move with her son King into Grandma Martha's house.

9. For what event is Josephine preparing in 1924 when we first meet her?

10. Name two drawbacks of Ava's decision to move with her son King into Grandma Martha's house.

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