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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. What color hair does Missus have?
2. From whom does Sally procure the dollar piece that she later gives to Josephine?
3. Eliza blames which member of her family for leading Major astray in his decision-making?
4. During the search for Grandma Martha, Juanita, King, and Ava are "almost at" what street when they "hear a muffled voice call out, 'Nine-one-one, what's your emergency?'" (195)?
5. When Josephine returns to her own house and finds Charlotte on her own porch, what word does Charlotte use to describe her husband Vern?
Short Essay Questions
1. What news does Ava receive when she is awakened out of a deep sleep by a troubling phone call?
2. Discuss an instance of foreshadowing within the text.
3. What is the significance of Missus's correction of Josephine's observation that there is "a new man" (115) at Wildwood?
4. How does Ava react to her mother Gladys's revelation about her visions of Josephine?
5. What observation does Link make about the possibility of black people being friends with white people in 1924 America?
6. For what reason does Vern come to Major's door to complain?
7. What is the "Travis plot" (122) discussed by Domingo prior to the family's escape attempt?
8. What evidence does Josephine provide for her conclusion that Jupiter was left unhurt by his violent physical punishment at Wildwood?
9. Describe an instance when the theme of hope is presented as a liability.
10. How does Ava feel after she leads a meeting of her doula mother Gladys's pregnant clients during Gladys's recuperation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Sexton’s novel The Revisioners. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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