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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 position does Gladys now inhabit for work?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Doula.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Life coach.
2. When the narrative opens, what major change are Ava and King in the midst of making?
(a) They are planning to open a school.
(b) They are planning to get married.
(c) They are moving.
(d) They are starting a business together.
3. When Josephine first takes on the role of first-person narrator, in what year is the narrative set?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1949.
4. How many months did it take Ava's savings to run out once she threw her husband Byron out of the house for cheating on her?
(a) 9
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.
5. Josephine tells Jericho that the night before Eliza's arrival, she dreamed of a woman wearing what color waving from a tunnel?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Violet.
(d) Orange.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what way is King related to Ava?
2. What topic does Gladys discuss that makes Ava feel anxious?
3. What is the name of Link's son, who went missing after being forced to work in a chain gang?
4. Josephine reminds Jericho that the first time they had met Eliza, she had been wearing what kind of flower in her hair?
5. What is the last name of the man named Aristide who owns the farm next door to Josephine's farm?
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 is the significance of Gladys's visit to the home of Grandma Martha?
3. What aspect of Gladys's health worries Ava, though she tries not to think about it?
4. In what way does Josephine demonstrate the power to empathize with those different from herself?
5. Josephine says she had been sure that her eldest daughter would remain by her side throughout their lives. What happens to prevent this outcome?
6. Name two drawbacks of Ava's decision to move with her son King into Grandma Martha's house.
7. Which aspects of Ava's life cause her humiliation?
8. For what event is Josephine preparing in 1924 when we first meet her?
9. What important item do Ava and King forget when they move to a new place at the start of the novel?
10. What action of Josephine's causes Aristide to surrender to her way of thinking?
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