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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 stays with Eliza throughout each day and night once she becomes pregnant?
2. At what time of day does Ava visit her mother in the hospital after she is admitted for coughing up blood?
3. Where does Ava go when she leaves Grandma Martha's book club meeting?
4. How many friends attend Grandma Martha's book club meeting?
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 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)?
2. Discuss an instance when Sexton uses a literary device to indicate a contrast between two characters.
3. What is the significance of Missus's correction of Josephine's observation that there is "a new man" (115) at Wildwood?
4. Whose influence does Eliza tell Josephine is leading her husband Major to make bad decisions?
5. How does Ava react to her mother Gladys's revelation about her visions of Josephine?
6. Which people begin to stop visiting Josephine all at once, causing her to "go days without seeing another face" (175) in 1924?
7. When Grandma Martha goes missing for an alarming period of time, where is she ultimately located and by whom?
8. For what reason does Missus gather together all of Wildwood's slaves one day after she becomes pregnant?
9. What observation does Link make about the possibility of black people being friends with white people in 1924 America?
10. What evidence does Josephine provide for her conclusion that Jupiter was left unhurt by his violent physical punishment at Wildwood?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What ultimate message is Sexton sending about the nature of aging?
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
Discuss Sexton’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of The Revisioners.
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