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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 does Jinx do with his share of the money?

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

3. When Ruthanne's uncle comes back the next morning to investigate the sound, who does he bring with him?

4. What ride does Ned want to go on with Pearl Ann?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What note do Abilene and her friends find?

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

7. What do Abilene and her friends find in the woods?

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

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

10. Where do Ned and Jinx work on their business?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss storytelling in the novel.

1) How does storytelling, through Miss Sadie's stories, the "Remember When" entries, or other storytelling, help the characters maintain a relationship with the past?

2) How does storytelling affect or change the memory of the past? How does storytelling selectively change what is remembered and how?

Essay Topic 2

All the characters in the novel have secrets. Discuss secrets in "Moon Over Manifest".

1) What motives do characters have for keeping secrets? What significance do secrets have in the novel?

2) What secrets ought to be kept, and what secrets ought to be revealed? What is the distinction?

3) Who uncovers secrets in the novel? Who betrays secrets? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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