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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wharton compares Mattie's hair to "a drift of mist on the moon," which suggests ___________________________.
(a) Logic and reality.
(b) Fear and doom.
(c) Fantasy and impermanence.
(d) Ugliness and coarseness.

2. Ethan tries to disguise Mattie's unskilled efforts at housekeeping by ______________________________.
(a) Claiming that she should not be asked to work.
(b) Sneaking downstairs to clean up during the night.
(c) Quietly asking her to do her chores over again.
(d) Doing most of her chores for her.

3. 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.

4. When Ethan and Mattie arrive at home, they cannot find _______________________.
(a) The key to the house.
(b) The key to the barn.
(c) The keys to the car.
(d) The sled.

5. How is the pickle dish broken?
(a) The cat knocks it off the table.
(b) The dog knocks it off the table.
(c) Mattie knocks it off the table.
(d) Ethan knocks it off the table.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What lie is revealed when Zeena presses Ethan to pay for a hired girl?

3. Who confesses the truth about the broken dish?

4. Ethan's mother suggested she was listening to ___________________________.

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

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