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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ethan asks Andrew Hale for money, __________________________________________.
(a) Hale gets angry and asks Ethan to leave.
(b) Hale claims money is too tight for him at the moment.
(c) Hale guesses that Ethan has lied to Zeena about money.
(d) Hale suggests that Ethan work for him.

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

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

4. What brought Ethan back to the farm, ending his studies at Worcester?
(a) His mother's death.
(b) His father's bankruptcy.
(c) His mother's suggestion that he get married.
(d) His father's death.

5. Ethan knows Zeena has made plans because _____________________________________.
(a) She is still in bed when he gets home.
(b) She is dressed in traveling clothes.
(c) She is wearing her pajamas.
(d) She has ordered a taxi to take her to town.

Short Answer Questions

1. Zeena asks Ethan if Jotham Powell can _________________________.

2. Ethan tries to disguise Mattie's unskilled efforts at housekeeping by ______________________________.

3. Ethan claims he needs to collect money from Mr. Hale because ____________________________________.

4. Since the previous night, Ethan feels a sense of _______________.

5. How is the pickle dish broken?

(see the answer key)

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