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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 231-276.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of the following members of the Revisioners will NOT be joining the chosen group when they make their escape?
(a) Fred.
(b) Domingo.
(c) Josephine.
(d) Winnie.

2. Ava thinks to herself that whenever she is "about to see [her] mother," her what "wobbles" (50)?
(a) Self-acceptance.
(b) Heartbeat.
(c) Courage.
(d) Faith.

3. The epigraph of the novel The Revisioners consists of a line by which famous poet?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Gwendolyn Brooks.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Maya Angelou.

4. When Josephine first takes on the role of first-person narrator, in what year is the narrative set?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1949.

5. What action does Josephine take when she discovers that Charlotte is being abused by Vern?
(a) She calls the police.
(b) She makes the sign of the cross.
(c) She shouts.
(d) She puts Charlotte to bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Gladys now inhabit for work?

2. When the novel begins, in what year is the first section of the text set?

3. Josephine states that in contrast to Missus, her mother Winnie handles her feelings "like" what "on a low fire" (115)?

4. What sight usually causes Josephine to "feel majestic beholding it all," (241) while on the day she interrupts a Ku Klux Klan meeting, it just brings her back to "waiting for Miss Sally to finish eating so [she] can devour her scraps" (241)?

5. Who comes to Major and Eliza's door in 1924 saying that he has been wronged?

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