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

2. For how many years has Josephine lived at Wildwood when 1855 arrives?

3. Josephine has "stopped expecting" (175) Eliza and Major by how many weeks after their argument?

4. Josephine celebrates the fact that she can only detect a "slight" bit of what "ever-present" (210) emotion within Major's words to Vern?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Which people begin to stop visiting Josephine all at once, causing her to "go days without seeing another face" (175) in 1924?

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

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

4. For what reason does Vern come to Major's door to complain?

5. Which member of the Revisioners draws the rock with the star on it and who leaves Wildwood as a group as a result?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Trace the characterization arc of Josephine’s character throughout the novel The Revisioners. Discuss whether Josephine is a round or flat character and whether she is a static or dynamic character.

Essay Topic 2

How is the topic of family bonds treated within The Revisioners and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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