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

2. What does Abilene think of the breakfast Shady makes?
(a) She doesn't even taste it as she eats it.
(b) She doesn't like it.
(c) She loves it.
(d) She is sick at the sight of it, and doesn't try it.

3. Does the boy accept Jinx's trade?
(a) No, the boy rejects Jiinx's trade immediately.
(b) Yes, the boy trades for what Jinx offers.
(c) No, at first the boy accepts, but then he changes his mind.
(d) Yes, but the boy gets Jins to add something to the trade.

4. What reason does Ned give that immigrants come to the town?
(a) To earn citizenship.
(b) For work.
(c) For education.
(d) For land.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Billy Claton's mother?

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

3. What happened to Shady's former church?

4. What does Hattie Mae offer Abilene?

5. What do the interrupters want?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What makes Abilene think that Sister Redempta has been to see Miss Sadie?

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

4. What assignment does the teacher give Abilene to complete over the summer?

5. What does Abilene think of Miss Sadie's yard?

6. Where does Abilene decide to put her valuables before going to sleep?

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

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

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

10. How did Jinx become separated from his uncle?

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