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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. Who did John meet outside the hardware store?

2. Why did Lyman ask John for a ride to town in Chapter 6?

3. How many years are said to have passed without anything of note happening to the Goodnoughs?

4. What was Roy's condition for allowing Edith and John to go out together?

5. As a child, what did Sandy do with Edith?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Lyman go after leaving Holt?

2. Why did Edith keep gum in her apron pockets?

3. Who did John meet and marry after Edith refused his proposal?

4. Why did Edith decide not to marry John?

5. How did Ada and Hannah become friends?

6. What does the reporter ask Sandy, which prompts Sandy to kick him off his land?

7. Who approaches Sandy Roscoe at the beginning of the book, and why?

8. How did Ada and Roy come to live in Colorado?

9. How is Roy Goodnough described in the first three chapters of the book?

10. On what condition did Roy allow John and Edith to date?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the death motif in the novel "The Tie That Binds." What deaths take place throughout the narrative? How do these deaths affect the principle characters of the novel? Is there any deeper meaning behind any of the deaths which take place in "The Tie That Binds"?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of dependence in the novel "The Tie That Binds." Who depends on whom? How does this affect the characters who have others who are dependent on them? Discuss Lyman's and Roy's dependence on Edith. How does this affect Edith?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the friendships in the novel. What examples of friendship are in the novel? How do these friendships help the protagonist overcome and deal with the issues she struggles with throughout the novel?

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