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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. 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?
2. What position does Gladys now inhabit for work?
3. Who is Jericho?
4. What is NOT an element of the best middle school in the city, which King attends for the first time early in the novel?
5. How far down the road from Josephine's farm does Link live?
Short Essay Questions
1. What aspect of Gladys's health worries Ava, though she tries not to think about it?
2. What major career change did Ava's mother Gladys make once she had practiced law for 20 years and why?
3. How does the theme of appearance versus reality appear within Ava's worries about her mother Gladys's health?
4. Josephine says she had been sure that her eldest daughter would remain by her side throughout their lives. What happens to prevent this outcome?
5. Which two emotions does Ava note within Josephine's expression in the photograph?
6. What important item do Ava and King forget when they move to a new place at the start of the novel?
7. What type of help does Charlotte request from Josephine and what is Josephine's response?
8. What circumstances led to Josephine's mother remaining emotionally distant from Josephine?
9. What epigraph does Margaret Wilkerson Sexton use at the beginning of the novel and what is one theme contained within the epigraph?
10. Name two drawbacks of Ava's decision to move with her son King into Grandma Martha's house.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Sexton’s novel The Revisioners. What message is Sexton sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Sexton’s use of the water motif within the novel The Revisioners.
Essay Topic 3
What is the function of Charlotte's character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Sexton in depicting Charlotte and include in your discussion the reasons that Sexton portrays her in these particular ways.
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