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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. Who tells Missus the location of her missing item(s)?
2. When Josephine returns to her own house and finds Charlotte on her own porch, what word does Charlotte use to describe her husband Vern?
3. Josephine remarks to herself during the exchange between Major and Vern at Major and Eliza's door that she feels what way about Major's display of respect to Vern?
4. When Josephine talks to Major about survival, she knows that which other character is also listening?
5. During Jupiter's first visit to Winnie's cabin, he expresses an interest in taking what action?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss an instance when Sexton uses a literary device to indicate a contrast between two characters.
2. How does Ava react to her mother Gladys's revelation about her visions of Josephine?
3. What change does Josephine notice in Charlotte after she reports becoming treasurer of a club she has just joined?
4. What evidence does Josephine provide for her conclusion that Jupiter was left unhurt by his violent physical punishment at Wildwood?
5. For what reason does Missus gather together all of Wildwood's slaves one day after she becomes pregnant?
6. Describe an instance when the theme of hope is presented as a liability.
7. When Grandma Martha goes missing for an alarming period of time, where is she ultimately located and by whom?
8. Which people begin to stop visiting Josephine all at once, causing her to "go days without seeing another face" (175) in 1924?
9. 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)?
10. Which member of the Revisioners draws the rock with the star on it and who leaves Wildwood as a group as a result?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Sexton's choice to tell the story of The Revisioners using the first person accounts of both Ava and Josephine. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Sexton’s intended effects on the reader?
Essay Topic 2
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Sexton’s novel The Revisioners. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Trace the characterization arc of Josephine’s character throughout the novel The Revisioners. Discuss whether Josephine is a round or flat character and whether she is a static or dynamic character.
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