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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie is afraid ______________________________________________.
(a) She will never find love in Starkfield.
(b) She is growing old.
(c) She is not strong enough to take care of Zeena.
(d) She will be sent away from the Fromes with no other place to go.

2. With Mattie, Ethan feels ____________________.
(a) Bitter.
(b) Pressure to succeed.
(c) Understood.
(d) Brave enough to stand up to his wife.

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

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

5. Mattie lives with the Fromes because ____________________________.
(a) She is a friend of the family who needed work.
(b) She is a hired girl acting as Zeena's aid.
(c) She is Ethan's cousin, and acts as their housekeeper.
(d) She is Zeena's cousin and acts as her aid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Zeena is described as an old woman, although she is ____________________________.

3. Who almost runs into the elm when sledding?

4. Ethan immediately regrets telling Zeena he will get money from Mr. Hale because ________________________________________.

5. Ethan claims that Mattie did not see him outside the church because _____________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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