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

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

3. During Jupiter's first visit to Winnie's cabin, he expresses an interest in taking what action?
(a) Helping her learn to read.
(b) Joining the Revisioners.
(c) Kidnapping Sally.
(d) Killing the Missus.

4. Which member of the Revisioners accuses Winnie of fixing the results of the annual drawing?
(a) Jessie.
(b) Domingo.
(c) Luther.
(d) Fred.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the search for Grandma Martha, Juanita, King, and Ava are "almost at" what street when they "hear a muffled voice call out, 'Nine-one-one, what's your emergency?'" (195)?

2. Which crops of Josephine's are mysteriously destroyed soon after Vern's visit to Major and Eliza's house?

3. Sally says to Josephine, "I'd never to do anything to hurt you, Josephine. You're like a" what "to me" (149)?

4. Which farm animal of Josephine's is mysteriously killed soon after Vern's visit to Major and Eliza's house?

5. Whose workers noisily cut down a tree in 1924, causing "everybody within a quarter mile" to hear the "crack" (209)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Discuss an instance of foreshadowing within the text.

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

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

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

8. Describe an instance when the theme of hope is presented as a liability.

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

10. What action does Sally ask Josephine to take that Josephine then appears to have taken one month later?

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