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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 do Lettie and Ruthanne do, when the three girls are at Miss Sadie's gate?

2. What does Ned do with his share of the money?

3. What kind of sandwiches do the girls eat while they are out searching?

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

5. What does Abilene feel, while she walks to Miss Sadie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Abilene doing before her friends come by to ask her to come hunting?

4. What note do Abilene and her friends find?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the structure of the novel, which is non-linear, divided between two timelines.

1) How does the writer use letters and articles as part of the structure of the novel? How does the author use Miss Sadie's stories?

2) Why is the story told non-linearly, moving between a past and present timeline? How does this affect the story?

3) What other structural elements and transitions does the writer use and why?

Essay Topic 2

One of the main themes of the novel is prejudice. Discuss the following:

1) What problems does prejudice cause for the people of the town? What are the causes of the people's prejudice? Who does prejudice help and who does it hurt?

2) How does prejudice affect Ned and Miss Sadie? How does prejudice affect Jinx? How does the town overcome prejudice?

3) How does prejudice affect the town in the 1930s when Abilene arrives?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss death in the novel.

1) How does death affect Jinx? How does he deal with Ned's death, the death of the stranger who threatens him and his uncle, and the death of the townspeople from influenza?

2) How does the near-deadly illness that Abilene goes through affect her and her father? How does Miss Sadie's approaching death affect Abilene and Miss Sadie?

3) How does death from war and illness affect the town as a whole?

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