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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Ethan warms himself by the stove, Mattie _______________________.
(a) Polishes the pickle dish.
(b) Sews in the kitchen.
(c) Glues the dish back together.
(d) Sews near the lamp.

2. Ethan makes Mattie uncomfortable when he mentions __________________________________.
(a) Denis Eady coming to visit her at the house.
(b) How beautiful she looks under the lamp.
(c) Ruth and Ned kissing behind the trees.
(d) Her clumsiness with the pickle dish.

3. Where is Ethan Frome going at the start of Chapter 1?
(a) Ethan is going a neighboring town to seek a doctor for his wife.
(b) Ethan is walking to the church in town to pick up his wife's cousin.
(c) Ethan is walking back to the farm to find his wife's cousin.
(d) Ethan is walking to the church to escort Mattie and Michael Eady back to town.

4. Since the previous night, Ethan feels a sense of _______________.
(a) Contentment.
(b) Dread.
(c) Euphoria.
(d) Fear.

5. Ethan enjoys following Zeena's orders at first because ___________________________________________.
(a) They free him to leave the house and go about his business.
(b) He cannot run the farm without her help.
(c) They remind him of when his mother was alive and well.
(d) They free him of responsibility to his home and family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Mattie changed her appearance for Ethan?

2. What gives Ethan a sense of mastery at the end of the chapter?

3. Wharton compares Mattie's hair to "a drift of mist on the moon," which suggests ___________________________.

4. Ethan tries to avoid accompanying his wife to bed by claiming ________________________________.

5. Zeena asks Ethan if Jotham Powell can _________________________.

(see the answer key)

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