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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 character taught Josephine "her letters" (147)?
(a) Sally.
(b) Tom.
(c) Missus.
(d) Jupiter.

2. Toward what location is Ava driving when she finds that she has missed a number of calls about Grandma Martha?
(a) Work.
(b) Home.
(c) Harper's house.
(d) The library.

3. When Ava wakes up in the middle of the night and finds a pigeon outside her window, what sound does she hear first?
(a) Moaning.
(b) Singing.
(c) Chanting.
(d) Rattling.

4. Josephine offers to bring what objects for Vern's perusal before he rejects her offer?
(a) Blueprints.
(b) Deeds.
(c) Maps.
(d) Topography measurements.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time of day does Ava visit her mother in the hospital after she is admitted for coughing up blood?

2. When the search party finds Grandma Martha, she tells Ava that she had been looking for what objects?

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. Which member of the Revisioners chooses the rock with the star on it, prompting one group to begin preparing for their imminent escape attempt?

5. How many months older than Sally was Josephine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Discuss an instance of foreshadowing within the text.

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

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

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