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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what style does Gladys wear her waist-length hair?
2. What piece of diamond jewelry does Grandma Martha give to Ava at the end of the text's first section?
3. Who is Jericho?
4. When the novel begins, in what year is the first section of the text set?
5. Where does Ava find the photograph of Josephine after Gladys goes home?
Short Essay Questions
1. What aspect of Gladys's health worries Ava, though she tries not to think about it?
2. What major career change did Ava's mother Gladys make once she had practiced law for 20 years and why?
3. What is the source of Josephine's anger toward her son Major on the day of Jericho's school function?
4. What issue does Ava name as the one that led to the breakup of her marriage to Byron?
5. What type of help does Charlotte request from Josephine and what is Josephine's response?
6. What action of Josephine's causes Aristide to surrender to her way of thinking?
7. What important item do Ava and King forget when they move to a new place at the start of the novel?
8. How did young Josephine come to be a member of the Revisioners?
9. Name two drawbacks of Ava's decision to move with her son King into Grandma Martha's house.
10. How does the theme of appearance versus reality appear within Ava's worries about her mother Gladys's health?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the theme of faith within The Revisioners. What is Sexton’s message regarding faith and how do you know?
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by Sexton in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of The Revisioners. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Sexton’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 3
What messages does Sexton send through her use of the dream motif within The Revisioners and what themes are employed in order to send these messages to the reader?
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