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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What task does Miss Sadie give Abilene to do?
(a) Tilling the garden.
(b) Painting the fence.
(c) Carrying the trash.
(d) Washing the windows.

3. How much money does Abilene have when she travels to Manifest?
(a) Two dimes.
(b) Two nickels.
(c) Two pennies.
(d) Two quarters.

4. Where is Abilene's room at Shady's Place?
(a) Upstairs.
(b) In a back room.
(c) In a detached barn.
(d) In the basement.

5. What food does Jinx want to get from the boy?
(a) Fish.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Oranges.
(d) Bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the interrupters want?

2. Who is with Billy Clayton's mother?

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

4. When Ruthanne's uncle comes back the next morning to investigate the sound, who does he bring with him?

5. What denomination is Shady?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Abilene think of the story Miss Sadie told her as her fortune?

2. What does Shady's Place look like?

3. On June 13, 1936, what does Abilene think about while she works?

4. How are the miners paid?

5. What do Abilene and her friends find in the woods?

6. What newspaper clipping does Abilene show Lettie and Ruthanne at the end of "Likely Suspects"?

7. What does Abilene make of the engraving on the item of her father's that she carries?

8. What does the first letter Abilene read talk about?

9. Besides money, what object does Abilene give to Miss Sadie, and why?

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

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