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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. What prank does Jinx play on the KKK members?

2. What loud noise interrupts Jinx's argument with the boy?

3. How does Abilene hope to avoid going to Miss Sadie's again?

4. What does Abilene break trying to get her lost item?

5. How do Abilene and her friends investigate their suspect?

Short Essay Questions

1. What noise does Abilene hear while she and her friends are out hunting?

2. How are the miners paid?

3. Where do Ned and Jinx work on their business?

4. What is Abilene doing before her friends come by to ask her to come hunting?

5. What is the plan to make money from the Victory Quilt?

6. Why does Jinx have to work for Miss Velma T?

7. What note do Abilene and her friends find?

8. What does Jinx offer to trade the boy for his food?

9. What does Mr. Underhill do at the cemetery?

10. How does Abilene answer questions about her parents at school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the law and its role in the novel.

1) How does the law affect the people in the town of Manifest? Do the laws do the job they are supposed to for the society?

2) How does the sheriff in Manifest represent the law? Does he do the job he is supposed to do for the society?

3) How does the sheriff who comes looking for Jinx and his uncle represent the law? Does he do the job he is supposed to do for the society?

Essay Topic 2

The novel is set in a small town in middle America in two different historical periods. Discuss the setting of the novel.

1) How do the historical time periods of the Great Depression and World War I affect the novel and its characters?

2) How does the location of a small town in rural America affect the novel? Why does the author choose this location?

3) Why does the author set the novel in one location, but in two time periods?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss ambition and capitalism in the novel.

1) How does Devlin's ambition affect others in the town? How does the novel portray Devlin, as a capitalist?

2) How does Jinx's ambition and desire to make money compare to Devlin? How does Jinx's desire to make money affect others? How does the novel portray Jinx? Is he also a capitalist?

3) What are other characters' ambitions? How does the novel portray those ambitions?

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