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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do medical personnel encourage as a response to the disease?
(a) Hand washing.
(b) Quarantines.
(c) Cleaning with alcohol.
(d) Wearing face masks.

2. Who remains in town, who might or might not keep the secret?
(a) Mr. Cooper.
(b) Mrs. Larkin.
(c) Mr. DeVore.
(d) Mr. Underhill.

3. How does Miss Sadie react, when Abilene tries to find a pot in a locked area?
(a) Helpfully.
(b) Mockingly.
(c) Sadly.
(d) Angrily.

4. What attainment did Mrs. Evans' daughter achieve in 1918?
(a) Girls baseball MVP.
(b) School newspaper editor-in-chief.
(c) Prom queen.
(d) Senior class president.

5. What does Abilene say in her telegram to her father?
(a) That she is joining the military.
(b) That she is ill and dying.
(c) That she is running away.
(d) That she is planning to kill herself.

6. Who realizes the truth about Miss Sadie's relationship with Ned?
(a) Shady.
(b) Sister Redempta.
(c) No one.
(d) Mr. Underhill.

7. What disease is spreading through the country in 1918?
(a) Bronchitis.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Spanish influenza.
(d) Yellow fever.

8. What word does Abilene look up in the dictionary?
(a) Habitual.
(b) Manifest.
(c) Ubiquitous.
(d) Insidious.

9. Who organized the secret meeting to talk about the land Mr. Devlin wants to buy?
(a) Mr. Underhill.
(b) Miss Sadie.
(c) Jinx.
(d) Hadley.

10. Where are Jinx and Shady headed when they run into the sheriff on September 1, 1918?
(a) Shady's place.
(b) The post office.
(c) Widow Cane's property.
(d) Devlin's mines.

11. Who was the traitor who told Burton and Devlin about the miracle elixir?
(a) Sister Redempta.
(b) Mr. Underhill.
(c) Mr. Gillen.
(d) Hattie Mae.

12. Where on Miss Sadie's property does Abilene try to go to find a pot?
(a) A cellar.
(b) A closet.
(c) A cistern.
(d) A shed.

13. What does Shady give to the man from the government who comes to his bar?
(a) Money.
(b) Elixir.
(c) A glass of water.
(d) A glass of liquor.

14. What is the coffin that Shady, Jinx, and Donal bury filled with?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Papers.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Miricle elixir.

15. When Miss Sadie picks up her story of Jinx and Ned on August 11, 1936, what does she begin with?
(a) A train arriving.
(b) A thunder storm approaching.
(c) A dog running down the street.
(d) A horse passing by.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the sheriff say the murderer his brother-in-law is looking for might be?

2. Who brings the news that Ned has died?

3. Where do Abilene, Lettie, and Ruthanne play on July 3, 1936?

4. Whose entry in the newspaper contest is the one Abilene and her friends are looking for?

5. Where are the graves of those who died in the tragedy that struck the town after Ned's death?

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