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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. Where is Miss Sadie injured?

2. What do Shady and Jinx use to make the extra liquor?

3. Where does Shady take Abilene?

4. How did Ned get to Manifest?

5. Who does Jinx blame for Ned going to war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Abilene decide to put her valuables before going to sleep?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did Jinx become separated from his uncle?

8. What does Mr. Underhill do at the cemetery?

9. What noise does Abilene hear while she and her friends are out hunting?

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

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

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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