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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. What does Eliza's mother Cyrile do for work?
(a) She is a lawyer.
(b) She is a nurse.
(c) She is a washerwoman.
(d) She is a teacher.

2. 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 daffodil.
(c) A violet.
(d) A peony.

3. Josephine recalls ensuring that her son Major finished which grade in school?
(a) 4th.
(b) 6th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 8th.

4. When King is homesick, Ava suggests that they go back to the old neighborhood when?
(a) For his birthday.
(b) The following weekend.
(c) The following month.
(d) At Christmas.

5. Josephine says in 1924 that she has ensured that which character "attends school year-round" (77)?
(a) Jericho.
(b) Eliza.
(c) Major.
(d) Link.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator reveals that Josephine began her life as a what?

2. The neighbors named Vern and Charlotte that Josephine gained a few months before the reader meets her are what type of people?

3. Who is the character named Byron?

4. Charlotte asks Josephine whether she is a conjurer in order to get help with what medical problem?

5. When the reader first hears Josephine's voice, she is preparing for the wedding of which character?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the source of Josephine's anger toward her son Major on the day of Jericho's school function?

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

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

4. Who is Senait?

5. What issue does Ava name as the one that led to the breakup of her marriage to Byron?

6. What main difference in narration exists between the 1924 and 1855 eras of Josephine's life?

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

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

9. How did young Josephine come to be a member of the Revisioners?

10. What epigraph does Margaret Wilkerson Sexton use at the beginning of the novel and what is one theme contained within the epigraph?

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