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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 locations are popular with the rich because of the disease epidemic?

2. What does Shady give to the man from the government who comes to his bar?

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

4. What do medical personnel encourage as a response to the disease?

5. What does Abilene discover Shady doing at night in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ned hope the people in the town are doing, in his letter home?

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

3. What does Miss Sadie tell Abilene about the Widow Cane property?

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

5. On July 15, 1918, what does Abilene go to the cemetery to look for?

6. What objection does Abilene make to Miss Sadie's story?

7. What does Hattie Mae convey to Abilene about Gideon?

8. Why is Miss Sadie's son not allowed to return to her country with her?

9. Why do Abilene and her friends decide to organize another Annual Homecoming Celebration?

10. What does the man from the government who comes to Shady's bar do while he's there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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