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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ethan claims that Mattie did not see him outside the church because _____________________________________.
(a) She was too busy talking to her friends.
(b) She was not looking for him.
(c) She did not expect him to show up.
(d) She went back inside to dance with Denis Eady.

3. Ethan's love of nature does not extend to ___________________.
(a) Lumber.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Animals.
(d) Agriculture.

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

5. Zeena may have become sickly because ______________________________.
(a) Ethan would not permit her to leave the farm.
(b) She refused to take medications.
(c) She became obsessed with her own symptoms.
(d) Ethan forced her to work outside on the farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie lives with the Fromes because ____________________________.

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

3. When Ethan returned to Starkfield, he missed ____________________________.

4. Mattie is afraid ______________________________________________.

5. Zeena believes Mattie will leave soon because ______________________________.

(see the answer key)

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