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 Victoria go on her lunch break?
(a) The principal's office.
(b) A convenience store.
(c) The school nurse.
(d) A fast food joint.

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

3. What does Mrs. Stearns tell Ike and Bobby to never do?
(a) Trust a doctor.
(b) Smoke cigarettes.
(c) Trust a preacher.
(d) Drink alcohol.

4. About what do Harold and Raymond joke?
(a) That they cannot afford extra help.
(b) That the stew has whiskey in it.
(c) That their sister will want everything immaculate.
(d) That their mother will probably confound the doctors.

5. What do Ike and Bobby wonder when they get home?
(a) If their nintendo has been fixed.
(b) If their mother has been in her room all day.
(c) If the cable is working again.
(d) If their dad has left them some after-school chores.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the boys ask about the McPheron brothers?

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

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

4. What does Mrs. Steans encourage Ike and Bobby to do?

5. What does one of Victoria's teachers say she will do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What call does Dr. Martin have that has to do with the McPherons and Victoria?

2. What do Ike and Bobby do for Christmas and how do they feel about it?

3. What does Dr. Martin do after he examines Victoria and what does she ask him?

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

5. Who gathers at the McPherons' for a Memorial Day celebration and what do the brothers tell Guthrie?

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

7. What does Victoria do when Dwayne comes home drunk at three in the morning? What does he 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 Victoria do for her lunch break, who does she encounter and what is the end result?

10. What does the school board chairman tell the Beckmans and how do they respond?

(see the answer keys)

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