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

3. How much liquor does the sheriff demand from Shady by the next day?

4. What does Abilene ask about as she works?

5. How does Abilene react to the interruption?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What indication of the KKK's activities do Shady and Jinx see?

6. Where does Ned go after leaving the town?

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

8. Why do Lance Devlin and Ned fight?

9. How does Abilene answer questions about her parents at school?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Abilene attempts to uncover the past and in the process makes the town remember the past. Discuss the past and remembrance in the novel.

1) What makes characters want to forget or bury the past? What are the benefits in the novel of remembering the past?

2) How does Abilene recover the past and cause the town to remember?

3) Is remembering the past harmful to anyone? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Jinx uses trickery and deception to help himself and the town. Discuss trickery and deception in the novel.

1) How do characters like Devlin, Jinx, and Abilene use trickery and deception for their own means? What makes some uses of trickery positive in the novel, while other uses are negative?

2) How does the town use trickery and deception? Why are these means necessary to counter Devlin? Are these means justified?

3) What is the author's perspective on trickery and deception?

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