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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 crops of Josephine's are mysteriously destroyed soon after Vern's visit to Major and Eliza's house?
(a) Onions.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Greens.
(d) Carrots.

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

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

4. How far away does Charlotte live from her mother?
(a) 5 miles.
(b) 40 miles.
(c) 20 miles.
(d) 300 miles.

5. For how long has Grandma Martha been missing by the time Ava is notified by phone?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Days.
(c) Minutes.
(d) Hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Jupiter's first visit to Winnie's cabin, he expresses an interest in taking what action?

2. Who stays with Eliza throughout each day and night once she becomes pregnant?

3. Though Louis protests, Josephine wants Major to take what action in order to placate Vern?

4. Which member of the Revisioners accuses Winnie of fixing the results of the annual drawing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What news does Ava receive when she is awakened out of a deep sleep by a troubling phone call?

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

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

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