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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 on the shelf behind Shady's bar?

2. What does Jinx do, when he hears a girl's voice?

3. What does Miss Sadie assume when Abilene comes to the house?

4. Does the boy accept Jinx's trade?

5. Who do Abilene and her friends think left the note they find?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What note do Abilene and her friends find?

6. What do Abilene and her friends think is strange about the way Miss Sadie talks about herself in her stories?

7. Why do Lance Devlin and Ned fight?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Community and family are important in this story of both a town and of a father and daughter. Discuss community and family found in "Moon Over Manifest".

1) How is community important to the town of Manifest, to its immigrant populations, and to the other townspeople? How do people define their community?

2) How is family important to the characters, and especially to Abilene?

3) What are the positive and negative aspects of family in the novel? How is family hurtful as well as helpful?

Essay Topic 2

Abilene is the central character and narrator of "Moon Over Manifest". Discuss Abilene's character.

1) Why does Abilene believe her father will come for her? What is her relationship with her father like?

2) Why does Abilene want to uncover the past? What motivates her?

3) How is Abilene similar to her father, and how is she different from him?

Essay Topic 3

The novel uses several points of view to tell the story. Discuss the following:

1) Why is the main part of the narrative told in first person from Abilene's point of view?

2) What point of view do the letters and news clippings add to the novel? Why does the author use these?

3) What is the point of view of the stories that Miss Sadie tells? Why does the author use this point of view?

4) How do the different points of view in "Moon Over Manifest" work together?

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