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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 49-114.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eliza's mother Cyrile do for work?
(a) She is a lawyer.
(b) She is a washerwoman.
(c) She is a teacher.
(d) She is a nurse.

2. What is the name of Link's son, who went missing after being forced to work in a chain gang?
(a) Henry.
(b) Michael.
(c) Paul.
(d) Herman.

3. The epigraph of the novel The Revisioners consists of a line by which famous poet?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Maya Angelou.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Gwendolyn Brooks.

4. What type of object is "the only thing of Josephine's that [Ava and King] own" (19)?
(a) A pitcher.
(b) A vase.
(c) A lamp.
(d) A clock.

5. When Gladys comes to visit Ava and King for the first time at Grandma Martha's, what object does Ava put in the living room?
(a) A photograph.
(b) A dish of candy.
(c) An ashtray.
(d) A dish of wheat germ.

Short Answer Questions

1. The neighbors named Vern and Charlotte that Josephine gained a few months before the reader meets her are what type of people?

2. What is Gladys's immediate reaction to Ava's revelation about having moved in with Grandma Martha?

3. What is the name of Eliza's "hotheaded" (26) brother?

4. What is the name of Josephine's husband?

5. The narrator reveals that Josephine began her life as a what?

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