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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 is the last name of the man named Aristide who owns the farm next door to Josephine's farm?
(a) Smith.
(b) Brown.
(c) Taylor.
(d) Cummings.

2. Who is Jericho?
(a) Josephine's son.
(b) Josephine's nephew.
(c) Josephine's grandson.
(d) Josephine's great-nephew.

3. In what room does Ava find Grandma Martha crouched on the floor, rubbing her neck?
(a) The laundry room.
(b) The library.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The kitchen.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Josephine, in relation to Ava?

2. What is NOT an errand that Ava runs on the day she visits her mother in the section that begins on page 49?

3. What is the name of Josephine's husband?

4. What color are Charlotte's eyes?

5. What position does Gladys now inhabit for work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action of Josephine's causes Aristide to surrender to her way of thinking?

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

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

4. Josephine says she had been sure that her eldest daughter would remain by her side throughout their lives. What happens to prevent this outcome?

5. How did Jericho come to stay with Josephine for an extended period of time?

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

7. What type of help does Charlotte request from Josephine and what is Josephine's response?

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

9. Who is Senait?

10. How does the theme of appearance versus reality appear within Ava's worries about her mother Gladys's health?

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