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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Disappointed.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Proud.

2. Whose workers noisily cut down a tree in 1924, causing "everybody within a quarter mile" to hear the "crack" (209)?
(a) Louis's.
(b) Paul.
(c) Aristide.
(d) Josephine's.

3. When Josephine talks to Major about survival, she knows that which other character is also listening?
(a) Link.
(b) Jericho.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Aristide.

4. Which crops of Josephine's are mysteriously destroyed soon after Vern's visit to Major and Eliza's house?
(a) Carrots.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Greens.
(d) Onions.

5. Ava finds that she has missed how many calls about her Grandma Martha a few days after Gladys's welcome-home party?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

6. Which mixed-race character at Wildwood has the slaveowner at Wildwood for a father?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Domingo.
(c) Jebediah.
(d) Sally.

7. Toward what location is Ava driving when she finds that she has missed a number of calls about Grandma Martha?
(a) Work.
(b) Harper's house.
(c) Home.
(d) The library.

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

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

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

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

12. Josephine celebrates the fact that she can only detect a "slight" bit of what "ever-present" (210) emotion within Major's words to Vern?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Glee.
(c) Anger.
(d) Shame.

13. From whom does Ava receive a call telling her that her mother Gladys is in the hospital?
(a) Grandma Martha.
(b) Gladys's neighbor.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Byron.

14. What is the name of the man who owns the Wildwood plantation?
(a) Steve.
(b) Tom.
(c) Dick.
(d) Harry.

15. Sally says to Josephine, "I'd never to do anything to hurt you, Josephine. You're like a" what "to me" (149)?
(a) Friend.
(b) Sister.
(c) Twin.
(d) Cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hair does Missus have?

2. Josephine is in what decade of life in 1924?

3. How many slaves had their heads "speared on posts dotting the Mississippi River" (122) in association with the Travis plot?

4. How many months older than Sally was Josephine?

5. Which one of the following members of the Revisioners will NOT be joining the chosen group when they make their escape?

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