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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

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. Ethan and Mattie discuss the marriage of ________________________.
(a) Ned and Ruth.
(b) Ethan and Zeena.
(c) Mattie and Denis.
(d) Jothan and Mattie.

3. Ethan immediately regrets telling Zeena he will get money from Mr. Hale because ________________________________________.
(a) Zeena will want to spend it on whatever the doctor recommends.
(b) Zeena will demand cash as soon as she arrives home.
(c) Zeena will want to spend it on herself in town.
(d) Zeena will want to use the cash to pay Mattie.

4. What room did Ethan create for himself when he returned from college?
(a) A library.
(b) A storage room.
(c) A laboratory
(d) A study.

5. Instead of asking the Hales for money, Ethan _________________________.
(a) Goes to the train station.
(b) Hides out in the barn.
(c) Goes to visit Jotham Powell.
(d) Goes home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ethan feels his misery is mocked by ________________________________.

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

3. Zeena has only made arrangements for _____________________.

4. Throughout the morning, Ethan continues to feel a spirit of ______________________.

5. Ethan and Mattie talk frankly for the first time about __________________.

(see the answer key)

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