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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. What does Abilene ask Miss Sadie about?
(a) The newspaper.
(b) Her father.
(c) Shady.
(d) The Rattler.

2. Where does Abilene find her lost item?
(a) In a cupboard in Shady's kitchen.
(b) Hanging from Miss Sadie's porch.
(c) Under the stairs at Mr. Underhill's.
(d) In her teacher's desk at the school.

3. What sound does Ruthanne's uncle hear in the woods one night?
(a) A banging sound.
(b) A ringing sound.
(c) A booming sound.
(d) A rattling sound.

4. What does Abilene ask about as she works?
(a) Shady.
(b) Miss Sadie's life.
(c) The Rattler.
(d) Ned and Jinx.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Abilene hope to avoid going to Miss Sadie's again?

2. What grade does the teacher give Abilene?

3. Who does Abilene learn lives behind the gate that Abilene noticed earlier?

4. When Ruthanne's uncle comes back the next morning to investigate the sound, what does he find in one of his traps?

5. What does Ned find out, when he goes to pick up his pay?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Abilene find in the hiding place she decides to use for her valuables?

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

4. How are the miners paid?

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

6. Why does Miss Sadie want Abilene to work around her house?

7. When does Abilene discover that she has lost an item?

8. How did Jinx become separated from his uncle?

9. What does the sheriff threaten Shady with?

10. What does the fireworks man show Ned and Jinx?

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