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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. Ava has a vision of a what object hanging from an oak tree at Grandma Martha's house?
(a) A bird.
(b) A ladder.
(c) A noose.
(d) A person.

2. Who stays with Eliza throughout each day and night once she becomes pregnant?
(a) Major.
(b) Josephine.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Link.

3. While exhibiting signs of dementia, Grandma Martha uses the word "colored" (196) to refer to which character?
(a) Juanita.
(b) Ava.
(c) Binh.
(d) King.

4. Which farm animal of Josephine's is mysteriously killed soon after Vern's visit to Major and Eliza's house?
(a) A hog.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A chicken.
(d) A cow.

5. Josephine is in what decade of life in 1924?
(a) Her 60s.
(b) Her 70s.
(c) Her 50s.
(d) Her 80s.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ava nearly place a call after she leaves the book club meeting?

2. Where does Ava go when she leaves Grandma Martha's book club meeting?

3. During Jupiter's first visit to Winnie's cabin, he expresses an interest in taking what action?

4. What kind of person does young Josephine begin to see after she comes back to life in her childhood?

5. What is the name of the man who owns the Wildwood plantation?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Domingo encourage his wife Winnie to be less brave?

2. What is the significance of Missus's correction of Josephine's observation that there is "a new man" (115) at Wildwood?

3. What phenomenon does Gladys report to Ava that she has been experiencing since she had to go to the hospital?

4. What change does Josephine notice in Charlotte after she reports becoming treasurer of a club she has just joined?

5. What action does Sally ask Josephine to take that Josephine then appears to have taken one month later?

6. What is the "Travis plot" (122) discussed by Domingo prior to the family's escape attempt?

7. For what reason does Missus gather together all of Wildwood's slaves one day after she becomes pregnant?

8. For what reason does Vern come to Major's door to complain?

9. Whose influence does Eliza tell Josephine is leading her husband Major to make bad decisions?

10. What observation does Link make about the possibility of black people being friends with white people in 1924 America?

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