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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. Why did Edith refuse John's proposal?

2. In what year was Sandy born?

3. What is Sandy's surname?

4. What were Roy's hands said to look like after the cutting machine accident?

5. What does Sandy note about the photos of the Goodnough family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened after John and Roy had an argument that came to blows in Chapter 6?

2. Where did Lyman go after leaving Holt?

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

4. Why does Sandy think Roy chose the plot of land that he did?

5. What did the doctor do to help Roy, and what was the lasting effect of his accident?

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

7. Why did John suspect that the barbed wire may be Roy's and not his own?

8. What happened to Ada in 1914, and how did Roy seem to feel about it?

9. Why did John and Sandy take Lyman to the train station in Chapter 6?

10. Why did Edith decide not to marry John?

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 antagonist of the novel "The Tie That Binds." What is an antagonist? Who is the antagonist of this novel? Why is he/she the antagonist? How does the antagonist affect the plot and the other characters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the protagonist of the novel. What is a protagonist? Who is the protagonist of "The Tie That Binds"? What are her defining character traits?

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