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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does Josephine spend her extra time reading during her extended period of alone time?
(a) Their Eyes Were Watching God.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Moby Dick.

2. For how long has Grandma Martha been missing by the time Ava is notified by phone?
(a) Days.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Minutes.
(d) Hours.

3. Josephine thinks to herself in 1924, "Isaiah would be so proud of all that had come from those first" how many "acres" (176)?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

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

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

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

7. Josephine has "stopped expecting" (175) Eliza and Major by how many weeks after their argument?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

8. Though Louis protests, Josephine wants Major to take what action in order to placate Vern?
(a) To pay money.
(b) To plant a tree.
(c) To apologize.
(d) To send a gift.

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

10. How many months older than Sally was Josephine?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 0.
(d) 3.

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

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

13. At what time of day does Ava visit her mother in the hospital after she is admitted for coughing up blood?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Early morning.
(c) Late evening.
(d) The middle of the night.

14. When Josephine returns to her own house and finds Charlotte on her own porch, what word does Charlotte use to describe her husband Vern?
(a) Mean.
(b) Spiteful.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Weak.

15. Charlotte tells Josephine the day of Vern's visit to Major that she hopes Vern did not inspire what feeling in Josephine?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Josephine offers to bring what objects for Vern's perusal before he rejects her offer?

2. Josephine celebrates the fact that she can only detect a "slight" bit of what "ever-present" (210) emotion within Major's words to Vern?

3. With what activity does Charlotte say she has been busy when she says that she will try to visit Josephine the following day?

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

5. How far away does Charlotte live from her mother?

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