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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie Silver has lived with the Fromes for _______________.
(a) A year.
(b) Six months.
(c) One month.
(d) Five years.

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

3. Ethan perceives Zeena's tone as __________________________.
(a) Sadly defeated.
(b) Cheerfully upbeat.
(c) Happily vindictive.
(d) Dryly resolute.

4. Ethan tries to avoid accompanying his wife to bed by claiming ________________________________.
(a) He has to go over the mill accounts.
(b) He has work to do in his study.
(c) He has to tend to the horses.
(d) He has to rebuild the fire.

5. Zeena asks Ethan if Jotham Powell can _________________________.
(a) Accompany her to the doctor's office.
(b) Drive her to the train station.
(c) Drive her to Michael Eady's store.
(d) Bring the lumber to Mr. Hale.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Instead of asking the Hales for money, Ethan _________________________.

3. Zeena finally stopped criticizing Mattie when __________________________________.

4. Whose presence at breakfast compels Ethan to hide his happiness at being alone with Mattie?

5. Why is Zeena still awake when Ethan and Mattie arrive at home?

(see the answer key)

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