The Tie That Binds: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Kent Haruf
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Tie That Binds: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Kent Haruf
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy The Tie That Binds: A Novel Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the man wearing who approaches Sandy in Chapter 1?

2. When Roy and Ada first arrived at their land, where did Ada live?

3. How did Roy feel about the fact that Ada was dying?

4. Before Sandy was born, what did Leona believe about herself?

5. What did Roy hate about harvest time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ada and Hannah become friends?

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

3. Where did Lyman go after leaving Holt?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did John see in the field as he and Sandy drove past the Goodnough farm in Chapter 6?

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character Lyman. What are Lyman's defining character traits? What is his role or purpose in the novel?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 794 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy The Tie That Binds: A Novel Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
The Tie That Binds: A Novel from BookRags. (c)2025 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.