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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 long after Jupiter's arrival does Missus's mother-in-law visit Wildwood?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 1 day.

2. What item(s) does Missus announce someone has stolen from Wildwood?
(a) A pair of cufflinks.
(b) A bracelet.
(c) Earrings.
(d) A brooch.

3. At whose instruction does Ava meet with Gladys's clients the day after Gladys is admitted to the hospital?
(a) Byron.
(b) King.
(c) Gladys.
(d) Hazel.

4. Link tells Josephine that white people are incapable of being friends with black people, since "they think friend mean" (143) what?
(a) Patsy.
(b) Enemy.
(c) Mule.
(d) Nothing.

5. How many friends attend Grandma Martha's book club meeting?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mixed-race character at Wildwood has the slaveowner at Wildwood for a father?

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

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

4. To whom does Ava nearly place a call after she leaves the book club meeting?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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