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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Ethan, Zeena personifies ______________________________-.
(a) All his triumphs and successes.
(b) His love and support.
(c) His dishonesty and treachery.
(d) All his failures and humiliations.

2. What gives Ethan a sense of mastery at the end of the chapter?
(a) Giving Mattie orders.
(b) Knowing he had deceived Zeena.
(c) Quelling Mattie's fears over the broken pickle dish.
(d) Building a fire and cleaning up the house.

3. Zeena instructs Jotham Powell to ________________________________________.
(a) Search Mattie's belongings for Zeena's missing items.
(b) Carry Mattie's trunk to the sleigh.
(c) Take Mattie into town and leave her there.
(d) Take Mattie to the train when he goes to pick up the hired girl.

4. Ethan and Mattie do not go sledding that evening because ___________________________.
(a) It is too cold outside.
(b) It is too dark outside.
(c) Mattie forgot their plans to go sledding.
(d) Ethan forgot their plans to go sledding.

5. As Ethan walks through the trees he passes _______________________________.
(a) Ruth Varnum and Ned Hale kissing.
(b) Denis and Mattie Silver kissing.
(c) Ned Hale and Mattie Silver kissing.
(d) Zeena and Michael Eady kissing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why isn't Zeena fooled by Ethan's claim that the cat broke her pickle dish?

2. Ethan's goal is to reach Starkfield ____________________________.

3. Ethan is initially drawn to Zeena because __________________________________.

4. Ethan resists following his wife upstairs because __________________________________________.

5. What does Mattie plan to do after leaving Starkfield?

(see the answer key)

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