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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. When Ava wakes up in the middle of the night and finds a pigeon outside her window, what sound does she hear first?
2. Where does Ava go when she leaves Grandma Martha's book club meeting?
3. Which member of the Revisioners accuses Winnie of fixing the results of the annual drawing?
4. How many slaves had their heads "speared on posts dotting the Mississippi River" (122) in association with the Travis plot?
5. With what activity does Charlotte say she has been busy when she says that she will try to visit Josephine the following day?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of Missus's correction of Josephine's observation that there is "a new man" (115) at Wildwood?
2. 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)?
3. Whose influence does Eliza tell Josephine is leading her husband Major to make bad decisions?
4. What evidence does Josephine provide for her conclusion that Jupiter was left unhurt by his violent physical punishment at Wildwood?
5. Discuss an instance of foreshadowing within the text.
6. What action does Sally ask Josephine to take that Josephine then appears to have taken one month later?
7. How does Josephine deal with the loneliness she experiences during one particular period of 1924?
8. What phenomenon does Gladys report to Ava that she has been experiencing since she had to go to the hospital?
9. What is the "Travis plot" (122) discussed by Domingo prior to the family's escape attempt?
10. What change does Josephine notice in Charlotte after she reports becoming treasurer of a club she has just joined?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do the themes of race and cultural identity function within The Revisioners and what is Sexton’s message regarding these themes?
Essay Topic 2
Choose an object from The Revisioners, such as the brass lamp, the tree under which Josephine prays, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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