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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 does Shady give to Abilene when he first sees her?

2. How does Abilene hope to avoid going to Miss Sadie's again?

3. What task does Miss Sadie give Abilene to do?

4. What does Abilene feel, while she walks to Miss Sadie?

5. How does Abilene react to the interruption?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shady's Place look like?

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

3. Why does Miss Sadie want Abilene to work around her house?

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

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

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

7. What does Jinx offer to trade the boy for his food?

8. What does the sheriff threaten Shady with?

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

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

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

Discuss power in "Moon Over Manifest".

1) How does Devlin have power over others in the novel? How does he use his power?

2) How do the townspeople hope to gain power over their lives and working conditions? Why do they have to work together to gain power?

3) Who else in the novel holds power over others? How do adults hold power over children? How does the law exercise power?

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