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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. Josephine recalls ensuring that her son Major finished which grade in school?
(a) 6th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 4th.
(d) 8th.

2. The group called the Revisioners was made up of how many members?
(a) 36.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 18.

3. It is revealed that Jericho's mother left him with Josephine when he was how many months old, though he is now 12 years old?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

4. How many pages long is the first section of text marked "Josephine 1855" (46)?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

5. In what scientific field does Ava have a college degree?
(a) Geology.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Biology.
(d) Environmental Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eliza's mother Cyrile do for work?

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

3. In what room of Gladys's house does Ava wait for her mother to finish with her clients?

4. Where does Ava find the photograph of Josephine after Gladys goes home?

5. The epigraph of the novel The Revisioners consists of a line by which famous poet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss two instances when Ava engages in denial regarding Grandma Martha's behaviors.

2. How did young Josephine come to be a member of the Revisioners?

3. What clues about Josephine are contained within the photograph belonging to Ava?

4. What aspect of Gladys's health worries Ava, though she tries not to think about it?

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

6. What important item do Ava and King forget when they move to a new place at the start of the novel?

7. What action of Josephine's causes Aristide to surrender to her way of thinking?

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

9. What circumstances led to Josephine's mother remaining emotionally distant from Josephine?

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

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