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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. Which character does Jericho mention during the game of whist that causes Josephine to pace the floor all night?

2. How does Charlotte respond when Josephine tells her about Eliza's pregnancy?

3. Which member of the Revisioners chooses the rock with the star on it, prompting one group to begin preparing for their imminent escape attempt?

4. While exhibiting signs of dementia, Grandma Martha uses the word "colored" (196) to refer to which character?

5. Ava has a vision of a what object hanging from an oak tree at Grandma Martha's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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)?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Discuss how and why Sexton instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of The Revisioners.

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