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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A vehement argument occurs between Major and what other character, prompting Charlotte to leave?
(a) Jericho.
(b) Link.
(c) Aristide.
(d) Eliza.

2. What color are Charlotte's eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Blue.

3. Who taught Ava "how to visualize a white light encasing" her and "protecting [her] from harm" (51)?
(a) King.
(b) Byron.
(c) Gladys.
(d) Grandma Martha.

4. What is the name of the sharecropper for whom Josephine and her husband work after the Civil War?
(a) Mr. Melton.
(b) Mr. Rush.
(c) Mr. Dennis.
(d) Mr. Geoffrey.

5. How many months did it take Ava's savings to run out once she threw her husband Byron out of the house for cheating on her?
(a) 9
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does The Revisioners take place?

2. Ava thinks to herself that whenever she is "about to see [her] mother," her what "wobbles" (50)?

3. In what location of Glady's house do Ava and Gladys talk before the visit comes to an end?

4. Ava reveals that she is how many years old?

5. What piece of diamond jewelry does Grandma Martha give to Ava at the end of the text's first section?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Josephine demonstrate the power to empathize with those different from herself?

2. What is the significance of Gladys's visit to the home of Grandma Martha?

3. What type of help does Charlotte request from Josephine and what is Josephine's response?

4. Who is Senait?

5. What epigraph does Margaret Wilkerson Sexton use at the beginning of the novel and what is one theme contained within the epigraph?

6. What is the source of Josephine's anger toward her son Major on the day of Jericho's school function?

7. Name two drawbacks of Ava's decision to move with her son King into Grandma Martha's house.

8. How did Jericho come to stay with Josephine for an extended period of time?

9. For what event is Josephine preparing in 1924 when we first meet her?

10. Josephine says she had been sure that her eldest daughter would remain by her side throughout their lives. What happens to prevent this outcome?

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