View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Abilene disembark the train to Manifest?
(a) By climbing off down a ladder.
(b) By falling off and rolling down a hill.
(c) By sneaking off among the crowds.
(d) By jumping off as it slows.

2. When Abilene delivers to Miss Sadie the items she wanted from the woods, what container does Abilene use?
(a) A bucket.
(b) A glass.
(c) A box.
(d) A cage.

3. What does Shady pick up?
(a) A dog.
(b) A music box.
(c) A telegraph machine.
(d) A typewriter.

4. Who becomes the first prime suspect to be the "Rattler"?
(a) Mr. Underhill.
(b) Sister Redempta.
(c) Shady.
(d) Miss Sadie.

5. What does Abilene feel, while she walks to Miss Sadie?
(a) Abilene feels as if there is something unnatural in the woods.
(b) Abillene feels as if she is floating on air.
(c) Abilene feels as if she's walking through the past.
(d) Abilene feels as if she's being followed.

6. What does Abilene walk toward after leaving the train?
(a) A field of corn.
(b) A small general store.
(c) A large house.
(d) A grove of trees.

7. When Ruthanne's uncle comes back the next morning to investigate the sound, what does he find in one of his traps?
(a) A note.
(b) A snake.
(c) A boot with a foot inside.
(d) A long, broken chain.

8. What happened to Shady's former church?
(a) It fell down.
(b) It burned down.
(c) It was repossessed.
(d) It had to be sold.

9. What kind of sandwiches do the girls eat while they are out searching?
(a) Liverwurst.
(b) Tuna fish.
(c) Pastrami.
(d) Peanut butter.

10. What kind of game does Abilene play as she walks to Miss Sadie's?
(a) A memory game.
(b) A rhyming game.
(c) An imagination game.
(d) A clapping game.

11. What is Billy Clayton doing, when Abilene runs across him?
(a) Drawing a picture.
(b) Throwing rocks.
(c) Picking flowers.
(d) Cutting wood.

12. What loud noise interrupts Jinx's argument with the boy?
(a) A gunshot.
(b) Thunder.
(c) A train whistle.
(d) A car motor.

13. What do the interrupters want?
(a) To make friends with Abilene.
(b) To give Abilene a message.
(c) To ask Abilene to dinner.
(d) To question Abilene about herself.

14. What did Jinx's uncle teach him?
(a) How to live off the land.
(b) How to be a con artist.
(c) How to do meetalwork.
(d) How to do carpentry.

15. Who refuses the immigrant woman's quilt square?
(a) Mrs. Larkin.
(b) Sister Redempta.
(c) Mrs. Clayton.
(d) Miss Sadie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ned get to Manifest?

2. What nationality is the woman who's square for the Victory Quilt is rejected?

3. What ride does Ned want to go on with Pearl Ann?

4. What kind of snack do the girls eat with their sandwiches while they are out searching?

5. What does Abilene think about going to school?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 479 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample