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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. How many slaves had their heads "speared on posts dotting the Mississippi River" (122) in association with the Travis plot?

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

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

4. What book does Josephine spend her extra time reading during her extended period of alone time?

5. Which crops of Josephine's are mysteriously destroyed soon after Vern's visit to Major and Eliza's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ava feel after she leads a meeting of her doula mother Gladys's pregnant clients during Gladys's recuperation?

2. What phenomenon does Gladys report to Ava that she has been experiencing since she had to go to the hospital?

3. How does Josephine deal with the loneliness she experiences during one particular period of 1924?

4. Discuss an instance of foreshadowing within the text.

5. What does Ava mean when she tells the reader that King "doesn't know [Grandma Martha] called him colored" and that he "doesn't know that she was looking for cabins" (198)?

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

7. What evidence does Josephine provide for her conclusion that Jupiter was left unhurt by his violent physical punishment at Wildwood?

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

9. How does Ava react to her mother Gladys's revelation about her visions of Josephine?

10. For what reason does Vern come to Major's door to complain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Sexton’s use of the water motif within the novel The Revisioners.

Essay Topic 2

What ultimate message is Sexton sending about the nature of aging?

Essay Topic 3

Write a critical essay about The Revisioners while using the critical power theory lens of feminist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of gender roles, the objectification of women, female empowerment, misogyny's role within society, or any other issues related to feminist theory that can be found in the novel.

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