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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 do Shady and Jinx use to make the extra liquor?
(a) Liver drops.
(b) Vitamin elixir.
(c) Hair tonic.
(d) Cough syrup.

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

3. What does Jinx do, when he hears a girl's voice?
(a) He runs away from her.
(b) He runs toward her.
(c) He calls out to her.
(d) He hides.

4. What does Abilene walk toward after leaving the train?
(a) A large house.
(b) A grove of trees.
(c) A small general store.
(d) A field of corn.

5. Why does Shady leave the house, allowing Abilene to sneak over to Miss Sadie's?
(a) To visit a friend in town.
(b) To collect some old wood.
(c) To buy groceries.
(d) To go fix a fence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession does Mr. Delvin's son have?

2. Where is the notice "Perdition"?

3. What does Ned win in the shell game?

4. When Abilene visits Miss Sadie on June 13, 1936, what does she ask Miss Sadie about?

5. What does Abilene think about going to school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jinx offer to trade the boy for his food?

2. Why does Abilene's father choose Manifest as the place he sends her?

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

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

5. How did Jinx become separated from his uncle?

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

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

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

9. What do Jinx and the boy he made the trade with see while they are hiding in the bushes?

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

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