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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. Jupiter tells Winnie that he will change whose mind for her if she allows him to join the Revisioners?
(a) Domingo's.
(b) Fred's.
(c) Missus's.
(d) Sally's.

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

3. Where does Ava go when she leaves Grandma Martha's book club meeting?
(a) Upstairs to Grandma Martha's room.
(b) Upstairs to her own room.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Gladys's house.

4. Which mixed-race character at Wildwood has the slaveowner at Wildwood for a father?
(a) Jebediah.
(b) Sally.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Domingo.

5. What kind of person does young Josephine begin to see after she comes back to life in her childhood?
(a) A man.
(b) A woman.
(c) A girl.
(d) A boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ava wakes up in the middle of the night and finds a pigeon outside her window, what sound does she hear first?

2. Ava finds that she has missed how many calls about her Grandma Martha a few days after Gladys's welcome-home party?

3. When Ava has a vision of an object hanging from the oak tree in Grandma Martha's yard, what does she discover the object is when she forces herself to look again?

4. For how long has Grandma Martha been missing by the time Ava is notified by phone?

5. Josephine tells Louis that she does not need to have attended school to know that if "you talk to a white man like you got some sense, and he'll" take what action against "your head" (211)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What phenomenon does Gladys report to Ava that she has been experiencing since she had to go to the hospital?

2. What does Ava mean when she tells the reader that King "doesn't know [Grandma Martha] called him colored" and that he "doesn't know that she was looking for cabins" (198)?

3. For what reason does Missus gather together all of Wildwood's slaves one day after she becomes pregnant?

4. Discuss an instance of foreshadowing within the text.

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

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

7. In what way does the theme of collectivism arise within the scenes of the Revisioners drawing rocks?

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

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

10. What change does Josephine notice in Charlotte after she reports becoming treasurer of a club she has just joined?

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