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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. 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) Winnie.
(b) Domingo.
(c) Josephine.
(d) Jupiter.

2. Whose workers noisily cut down a tree in 1924, causing "everybody within a quarter mile" to hear the "crack" (209)?
(a) Aristide.
(b) Louis's.
(c) Paul.
(d) Josephine's.

3. How many clients show up to Hazel's house for the meeting led by Ava in Gladys's absence?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

4. When Josephine talks to Major about survival, she knows that which other character is also listening?
(a) Jericho.
(b) Aristide.
(c) Link.
(d) Eliza.

5. How long does it take for Missus to conceive a child after Josephine begins to will the child into existence?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 6 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which other character is in the car with Ava when she finds a series of missed calls about Grandma Martha?

2. How many slaves had their heads "speared on posts dotting the Mississippi River" (122) in association with the Travis plot?

3. Josephine remarks to herself during the exchange between Major and Vern at Major and Eliza's door that she feels what way about Major's display of respect to Vern?

4. Eliza blames which member of her family for leading Major astray in his decision-making?

5. Which character does Gladys claim speaks to her from the time she is admitted to the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance when Sexton uses a literary device to indicate a contrast between two characters.

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

3. When Grandma Martha goes missing for an alarming period of time, where is she ultimately located and by whom?

4. 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)?

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

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

7. Which people begin to stop visiting Josephine all at once, causing her to "go days without seeing another face" (175) in 1924?

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

9. For what reason does Domingo encourage his wife Winnie to be less brave?

10. What is the "Travis plot" (122) discussed by Domingo prior to the family's escape attempt?

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