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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. Who is Josephine, in relation to Ava?
2. How many times per year does Ava generally visit her mother Gladys?
3. How far down the road from Josephine's farm does Link live?
4. When Gladys comes to visit Ava and King for the first time at Grandma Martha's, what object does Ava put in the living room?
5. When Josephine first takes on the role of first-person narrator, in what year is the narrative set?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which aspects of Ava's life cause her humiliation?
2. What major career change did Ava's mother Gladys make once she had practiced law for 20 years and why?
3. Who is Senait?
4. What aspect of Gladys's health worries Ava, though she tries not to think about it?
5. How did Jericho come to stay with Josephine for an extended period of time?
6. Name two drawbacks of Ava's decision to move with her son King into Grandma Martha's house.
7. What important item do Ava and King forget when they move to a new place at the start of the novel?
8. What action of Josephine's causes Aristide to surrender to her way of thinking?
9. What type of help does Charlotte request from Josephine and what is Josephine's response?
10. What is the significance of Gladys's visit to the home of Grandma Martha?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Look carefully at the passages of The Revisioners that describe the close relationship between Ava and her 12-year-old son King. What is Sexton’s purpose for discussing at length the nature of the connection between this mother and son and in what way does the relationship contain several of the text’s main themes?
Essay Topic 3
Write a critical essay about The Revisioners while using the critical power theory lens of feminist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of gender roles, the objectification of women, female empowerment, misogyny's role within society, or any other issues related to feminist theory that can be found in the novel.
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