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

2. How long does it take for Missus to conceive a child after Josephine begins to will the child into existence?

3. Which mixed-race character at Wildwood has the slaveowner at Wildwood for a father?

4. What kind of person does young Josephine begin to see after she comes back to life in her childhood?

5. How many months older than Sally was Josephine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What change does Josephine notice in Charlotte after she reports becoming treasurer of a club she has just joined?

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

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

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

5. 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)?

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

7. For what reason does Domingo encourage his wife Winnie to be less brave?

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

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

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

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

Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of The Revisioners and analyze Sexton’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.

Essay Topic 3

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

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