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

2. Ava has a vision of a what object hanging from an oak tree at Grandma Martha's house?
(a) A bird.
(b) A person.
(c) A noose.
(d) A ladder.

3. What color hair does Missus have?
(a) Brown.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Blonde.

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

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)?
(a) Cut it off.
(b) Bury it.
(c) Smash it.
(d) Blow it wide open.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many friends attend Grandma Martha's book club meeting?

2. On what part of Charlotte's body does Josephine first notice an injury inflicted by Vern?

3. To whom was Josephine referring in 1855 when she remarked to Missus that "a new man" (115) had arrived at Wildwood?

4. How far away does Charlotte live from her mother?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance of foreshadowing within the text.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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