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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. How many slaves had their heads "speared on posts dotting the Mississippi River" (122) in association with the Travis plot?
(a) 20.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 30.

2. Which member of the Revisioners chooses the rock with the star on it, prompting one group to begin preparing for their imminent escape attempt?
(a) Josephine.
(b) Winnie.
(c) Domingo.
(d) Jupiter.

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

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

5. Which other character is in the car with Ava when she finds a series of missed calls about Grandma Martha?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Gladys.
(c) King.
(d) Byron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Link tells Josephine that white people are incapable of being friends with black people, since "they think friend mean" (143) what?

2. What item(s) does Missus announce someone has stolen from Wildwood?

3. Josephine has "stopped expecting" (175) Eliza and Major by how many weeks after their argument?

4. Josephine states that in contrast to Missus, her mother Winnie handles her feelings "like" what "on a low fire" (115)?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Missus's correction of Josephine's observation that there is "a new man" (115) at Wildwood?

2. What observation does Link make about the possibility of black people being friends with white people in 1924 America?

3. How does Ava feel after she leads a meeting of her doula mother Gladys's pregnant clients during Gladys's recuperation?

4. For what act does Ava feel gratitude toward Grandma Martha in relation to the period just after King's birth?

5. For what reason does Vern come to Major's door to complain?

6. How does Josephine deal with the loneliness she experiences during one particular period of 1924?

7. What evidence does Josephine provide for her conclusion that Jupiter was left unhurt by his violent physical punishment at Wildwood?

8. Whose influence does Eliza tell Josephine is leading her husband Major to make bad decisions?

9. How does Ava react to her mother Gladys's revelation about her visions of Josephine?

10. Which member of the Revisioners draws the rock with the star on it and who leaves Wildwood as a group as a result?

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