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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. Which member of the Revisioners accuses Winnie of fixing the results of the annual drawing?

2. At what time of day does Ava visit her mother in the hospital after she is admitted for coughing up blood?

3. For how many years has Josephine lived at Wildwood when 1855 arrives?

4. What item(s) does Missus announce someone has stolen from Wildwood?

5. What is the name of the man who owns the Wildwood plantation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Discuss an instance when Sexton uses a literary device to indicate a contrast between two characters.

5. What change does Josephine notice in Charlotte after she reports becoming treasurer of a club she has just joined?

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

7. For what reason does Missus gather together all of Wildwood's slaves one day after she becomes pregnant?

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

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

10. 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)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How is the topic of family bonds treated within The Revisioners and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?

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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