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

2. Why does Ike and Bobby's mother cry when they are there?
(a) Because they buy her perfume and bubble bath as a present.
(b) Because they say they want her to come back home.
(c) She does not cry.
(d) She is watching a sad soap opera.

3. What does Russ want of Sharlene?
(a) Nothing.
(b) For her to have an abortion.
(c) For her to have sex with his friend.
(d) For her to have sex with him.

4. What do Ike and Bobby buy at the store for their mother?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) A book.
(c) Milk.
(d) Coffee.

5. Who do Ike and Bobby see inside a vacant house one night?
(a) Two old bums who are drinking.
(b) A local drug dealer selling some cocaine.
(c) A large bobcat.
(d) A high school couple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they decide to do to the nervous cow?

2. What do Ike and Bobby wonder when they get home?

3. What do the brothers do after dinner while Victoria is in her room?

4. What does the female student say when Guthrie calls upon her?

5. What does Ike and Bobby's mother say when the two boys check on her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tom do about Ike and Bobby after seeing his wife?

2. What happens the third night Victoria is working at a convenience store?

3. What strange thing is Ike's horse doing one morning and what does Guthrie say he will do?

4. What happens when Victoria goes home after school the afternoon her mother decided Victoria was pregnant?

5. What do Ike and Bobby do when they get home from school?

6. What does Victoria tell the McPheron brothers about where she was and where do they take her?

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

8. What does Crowder tell Russell Beckman's parents as to the reason they have been called to the office and what does Mrs. Beckman say? What does Russell say?

9. What does Crowder decide to do about Russell, what is Russell's father's response and what does Crowder tell Guthrie when they leave?

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

(see the answer keys)

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