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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 the prize for the newspaper contest?

2. What did Stucky Cybulskis write in the senior classroom?

3. Who talks to Abilene about the embarrassment of foreign names?

4. What word does Abilene look up in the dictionary?

5. What three elements does Jinx plan to mix together for his secret mixture?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Abilene feel about the growth of Miss Sadie's garden?

2. In "The Shadow of Death," what does Abilene realize about her compass?

3. Why do the people in the town think there might be a traitor amongst them?

4. What is Ned's job in the military?

5. What are the obstacles to the townspeople buying the property that Devlin wants?

6. How is Miss Sadie's health when Abilene visits her on August 23, 1936?

7. What role does Abilene take on at the end of the novel?

8. How does Abilene discover who her father is in Manifest?

9. What does Ned write in his letter about being wounded?

10. How do Jinx and Shady sell their miracle elixir?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss proving yourself to others in the novel.

1) Why does Ned go off to war? Why does he need to prove himself?

2) How do the characters in the town prove themselves to others, so that the town can cooperate?

3) How does Jinx prove himself to others in the town? How does he see himself, compared to how others see him?

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