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. What happens to Bobby near the end of the work?
(a) He jumps off the fence and sprains his ankle.
(b) He trips and falls off the fence into the pig pen.
(c) He is run over by a cow.
(d) He breaks his arm.

2. How does Jim take the news about Ella?
(a) At first he is argumentative.
(b) He forbids her to go.
(c) He is glad.
(d) He says that he is sad but it's probably for the best.

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

4. Who does Maggie mention that makes the McPherons understand why Victoria is not getting any family support?
(a) Grandma Roubideaux.
(b) Betty Roubideaux.
(c) Dwayne Roubideaux.
(d) Jacob Roubideaux.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do Harold and Raymond wait?

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

3. Where does Victoria work?

4. Who repeatedly slaps Victoria?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the boys tell Guthrie when he picks them up at the McPherons' and what do they ask him?

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

3. What do the McPheron brothers say when Tom Guthrie arrives with Ike and Bobby to help vaccinate their cattle?

4. How does Victoria's mother find out Victoria is pregnant and what is her response?

5. What does Victoria do for her lunch break, who does she encounter and what is the end result?

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

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

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

9. Why does Raymond get angry at a bar?

10. What does Victoria do when Dwayne comes home drunk at three in the morning? What does he do?

(see the answer keys)

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