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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie's only skills include _______________________________________.
(a) Making candy, playing piano minimally, and reciting poetry.
(b) Book-keeping and clerical work.
(c) Making medicine, nursing others, and household chores.
(d) Making dresses and singing.

2. Secretly, Ethan wanted to put off his trip into town because it meant _________________________________.
(a) He could speak to Andrew Hale about money again.
(b) He could help Mattie clean up the breakfast dishes.
(c) He could send Jotham to pick up Zeena from the Flats.
(d) He could go home and spend the day with Mattie.

3. Ethan claims he continues to mention Mattie's eventual marriage because __________________________________.
(a) Zeena wants him to encourage Mattie to leave.
(b) He is burning with jealousy.
(c) He wants her to swear she will never marry.
(d) He is trying to get used to the idea.

4. Zeena may have become sickly because ______________________________.
(a) Ethan would not permit her to leave the farm.
(b) She became obsessed with her own symptoms.
(c) Ethan forced her to work outside on the farm.
(d) She refused to take medications.

5. Ethan tries to avoid accompanying his wife to bed by claiming ________________________________.
(a) He has to rebuild the fire.
(b) He has to go over the mill accounts.
(c) He has work to do in his study.
(d) He has to tend to the horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ethan feels too constrained to try to touch Mattie inside the house because ____________________________________________.

2. Who visited Mattie while Ethan was away during the day?

3. Why does Ethan hide outside the church when waiting for Mattie?

4. Which of her partners offers Mattie a ride home?

5. Because Ethan is too afraid to touch Mattie, he settles for _______________________________.

(see the answer key)

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