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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Billy Claton's mother?
(a) She has gotten pneumonia.
(b) She has injured her leg.
(c) She has fainted.
(d) She has had a baby.

2. How does Abilene react to the interruption?
(a) She runs off.
(b) She hides her things and immediately greets the interrupters.
(c) She immediately invites the interrupters to see what she has.
(d) She at first tries to get the interrupters to go away.

3. How much liquor does the sheriff demand from Shady by the next day?
(a) Quadruple his usual amount.
(b) One and a half times his usual amount.
(c) Triple his usual amount.
(d) Double his usual amount.

4. 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 pretending to be sick.
(c) By pretending to have too much homework to do.
(d) By getting in so much trouble with Shady that he won't let her go.

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

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

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

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

9. What does Abilene think about going to school?
(a) She doesn't care one way or the other.
(b) She thinks it's a dumb idea.
(c) She's afraid.
(d) She thinks it's a great idea.

10. Does Abilene recover her lost item?
(a) No, she keeps trying but can't retrieve it.
(b) No, she runs away without recovering it.
(c) Yes, she gets it and leaves without being seen.
(d) Yes, but someone sees her retrieving it.

11. Why doesn't Abilene look at what she found the previous evening before leaving for school?
(a) She doesn't want to draw attention to what she's found.
(b) Her mind is on other things.
(c) She doesn't have time.
(d) She's forgotten about it.

12. What does Miss Sadie send Abilene to get for her?
(a) Her glasses.
(b) Ointment.
(c) A cup of tea.
(d) A dustpan.

13. How big is the catfish Jinx brings home to Shady?
(a) Twenty pounds.
(b) Ten pounds.
(c) Fifteen pounds.
(d) Five pounds.

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

15. Who do Abilene and her friends think left the note they find?
(a) Sister Redempta.
(b) Miss Sadie.
(c) The Rattler.
(d) Shady.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman whose quilt square is rejected do in response?

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

3. What do Shady and Jinx use to make the extra liquor?

4. What does Hattie Mae offer Abilene?

5. What time does school let out?

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