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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. How does Charlotte respond when Josephine tells her about Eliza's pregnancy?
(a) She exclaims with joy.
(b) She runs out the front door.
(c) She hugs Josephine.
(d) She is quiet.

2. How many clients show up to Hazel's house for the meeting led by Ava in Gladys's absence?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

3. Who stays with Eliza throughout each day and night once she becomes pregnant?
(a) Josephine.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Link.
(d) Major.

4. How many months pregnant is Eliza when there is a dispute over a tree?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

5. The slaves killed when the Travis plot was uncovered were planning to take what action the following week?
(a) Shoot the missus.
(b) Shoot the master.
(c) Run away.
(d) Burn down the plantation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Josephine tells Louis that she does not need to have attended school to know that if "you talk to a white man like you got some sense, and he'll" take what action against "your head" (211)?

2. Though Louis protests, Josephine wants Major to take what action in order to placate Vern?

3. How far away does Charlotte live from her mother?

4. To whom does Ava nearly place a call after she leaves the book club meeting?

5. Whose workers noisily cut down a tree in 1924, causing "everybody within a quarter mile" to hear the "crack" (209)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "Travis plot" (122) discussed by Domingo prior to the family's escape attempt?

2. Which member of the Revisioners draws the rock with the star on it and who leaves Wildwood as a group as a result?

3. What news does Ava receive when she is awakened out of a deep sleep by a troubling phone call?

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

5. When Grandma Martha goes missing for an alarming period of time, where is she ultimately located and by whom?

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

7. What is the significance of Missus's correction of Josephine's observation that there is "a new man" (115) at Wildwood?

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

9. What observation does Link make about the possibility of black people being friends with white people in 1924 America?

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

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