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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ethan's mother suggested she was listening to ___________________________.
(a) Voices in her head.
(b) The radio.
(c) Voices from the cemetery.
(d) The television.

3. Ethan resists following his wife upstairs because __________________________________________.
(a) He does not want to give in to Zeena's demands.
(b) He does not want Mattie to be left downstairs alone.
(c) He does not want Mattie to watch them go up to bed together.
(d) He does not want Mattie to see him show kindness to Zeena.

4. Ethan is unpleasantly surprised when his wife notices __________________________________.
(a) That he has taken to sleeping in his office.
(b) That he has taken to shaving every day since Mattie arrived.
(c) That he is always late for work since Mattie arrived.
(d) That he is envious of Michael Eady.

5. Why can't Ethan replace Zeena's pickle dish?
(a) It was the last of its kind.
(b) It came from Paris.
(c) It was a family heirloom.
(d) It came from Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Mattie dances, Ethan notices ________________________________.

2. What gives Ethan's kitchen a "homelike look?"

3. Ethan tries to avoid accompanying his wife to bed by claiming ________________________________.

4. When Ethan arrives, he ____________________________.

5. Ethan now sees the cemetery as ____________________________.

(see the answer key)

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