Plainsong Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Kent Haruf
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 160 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Plainsong Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Kent Haruf
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 160 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Maggie Jones drive?
(a) The McPherons' ranch.
(b) To talk to Ike and Bobby's mother.
(c) The Guthrie ranch.
(d) To find Dwayne.

2. Where are Ike and Bobby sitting on their bikes?
(a) On the railroad trestle.
(b) Across from the house where their mother lives.
(c) On an overpass.
(d) Across from the vacant house where teens have sex.

3. What does Maggie do after Irving Curtis whispers something to him?
(a) She slaps Irving.
(b) She leaves the room.
(c) She yells at him.
(d) She cries.

4. What does Ralph Black not want the boys to do?
(a) Lean their bikes on the wagon.
(b) Fold the newspapers with the front page inward.
(c) Put the newspapers in plastic bags if it does not look like rain.
(d) Fold the newspapers with the front page out.

5. What does one of Victoria's teachers say she will do?
(a) Speak to the father of her baby.
(b) Go to a doctor with Victoria.
(c) Speak to the parents of the father of her baby.
(d) Speak to Victoria's grandparents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Maggie mention that makes the McPherons understand why Victoria is not getting any family support?

2. Why is Guthrie in Crowder's office with the Beckmans?

3. What does Mrs. Stearn want before paying Ike and Bobby?

4. How is the time the boys spend with their mother before she leaves?

5. What does Raymond worry about the first night Victoria is at their house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maggie tell Harold at the store and what do he and his brother decide they need to do?

2. What happens when Ike and Bobby visit the house where their mother now lives?

3. What do the McPheron brothers do when Victoria doesn't come home and how do they feel about it?

4. How does Guthrie end up at Maggie's house and what do they do?

5. What happens when Victoria returns to the McPherons' house?

6. What do Ike and Bobby do after their paper route on the morning their horse is sick? What happens to the horse and what does the veterinarian do?

7. What happens with the last cow that needs done and what do the brothers decide to do with her?

8. How does Guthrie end up at Judy's house?

9. What do Ike and Bobby do before school at the beginning of the book?

10. When does Victoria go into labor, how does she handle it and how do the McPherons handle it? What does she deliver?

(see the answer keys)

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