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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Abilene hope to avoid going to Miss Sadie's again?
(a) By making herself so valuable to Shady that he won't let her go.
(b) By getting in so much trouble with Shady that he won't let her go.
(c) By pretending to have too much homework to do.
(d) By pretending to be sick.

2. How much money do Jinx and Ned make in their business venture?
(a) Seventy dollars.
(b) Thirty dollars.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Fifty dollars.

3. What does Ned do with his share of the money?
(a) He bribes his way into the military.
(b) He buys a bicycle.
(c) He buys a ring for Pearl Ann.
(d) He hides it in a box under a rock.

4. Where does Shady take Abilene?
(a) To the newspaper office.
(b) To the general store.
(c) To the post office.
(d) To the sheriff's office.

5. What railway does Abilene ride on the way to Manifest?
(a) Wichita Union Terminal Railway.
(b) Union Pacific Railroad.
(c) Santa Fe Railway.
(d) Grand Western Railway.

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

7. Who interrupts Abilene while she is reading the letters she's found?
(a) Shady and Hattie Mae.
(b) Miss Sadie and Shady.
(c) Two girls from school.
(d) Sister Redempta and a boy from school.

8. Where does the sheriff's brother-in-law live?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Missouri.

9. Where is the notice "Perdition"?
(a) Across the top of the gate.
(b) On a sign that's fallen to the ground.
(c) Sideways along the gate.
(d) On a post behind the gate.

10. What item in Miss Sadie's story seems similar to something Abilene found?
(a) A shoe.
(b) A fishing lure.
(c) A robe.
(d) A bottle.

11. What does Jinx do, when he hears a girl's voice?
(a) He runs toward her.
(b) He hides.
(c) He runs away from her.
(d) He calls out to her.

12. Who does Abilene learn lives behind the gate that Abilene noticed earlier?
(a) Mr. Underhill.
(b) Sister Redempta.
(c) Miss Sadie.
(d) No one.

13. What does Shady say he is picking up?
(a) A friend.
(b) A letter.
(c) A bible.
(d) A sandwich.

14. What does Shady give to Abilene when he first sees her?
(a) A photograph of her father.
(b) An object she had dropped.
(c) A newspaper clipping.
(d) A card with his name on it.

15. When Abilene visits Miss Sadie on June 13, 1936, what does she ask Miss Sadie about?
(a) A song.
(b) A book.
(c) A curse.
(d) A picture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of map does Abilene find?

3. What does Jinx do with his share of the money?

4. What does the sheriff come to get from Shady?

5. What is in Abilene's box lined with newspaper?

(see the answer keys)

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