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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jinx doing when the boy returns?

2. What does Shady pick up?

3. What does Shady give to Abilene when he first sees her?

4. What item in Miss Sadie's story seems similar to something Abilene found?

5. How much does Abilene give Miss Sadie for a fortune?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Shady's Place look like?

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

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

5. What is the plan to make money from the Victory Quilt?

6. How are the miners paid?

7. What is the profession of the person Abilene is going to stay with in Manifest?

8. How did Jinx become separated from his uncle?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss what it means to be an American in the novel.

1) What qualifies someone as an American in the novel? Can immigrants truly be Americans?

2) What meaning does serving in the war have for the characters? Does it make the soldiers more American? Why or why not?

3) How does the Victory Quilt reflect patriotism and identity as an American? What does the rejection of the Hungarian woman's square mean for the town and its definition of who is an American?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss work in the novel.

1) What creates the desire to work in the novel? What do the characters want to work on, such as Hattie Mae's column or Jinx's fireworks?

2) What is the meaning of work in the novel? How does work give satisfaction as well as money? Does work such as Abilene's work in Miss Sadie's garden have meaning beyond the payment for the work?

3) How does work in the mines compare to other kinds of work characters do in the novel? What significance do the bad working conditions for the miners have?

Essay Topic 3

Objects and mementos play an important role in uncovering and understanding the past. Discuss importance of objects in revealing the past in the novel.

1) Why do characters keep objects from the past? How do objects connect the characters to the past?

2) How do objects serve as clues for Abilene to recover the past and understand it?

3) What are the limitations of objects in revealing and remembering the past?

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