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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 the notice "Perdition"?

2. Does Abilene tell Shady about the story Miss Sadie told?

3. What does Abilene break trying to get her lost item?

4. Who refuses the immigrant woman's quilt square?

5. What does the sheriff come to get from Shady?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ned do for a living?

2. What does the sheriff threaten Shady with?

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

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

5. What is Abilene doing before her friends come by to ask her to come hunting?

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

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

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

9. When does Abilene discover that she has lost an item?

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

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

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 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?

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