View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening at the church at midnight?
(a) A town meeting is taking place.
(b) The church social is taking place.
(c) The church services are taking place.
(d) Christmas Eve is being celebrated.

2. What motif continues to suggest a promise of happiness or well-being for Ethan at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) The motif of color.
(b) The motif of darkness.
(c) The motif of water.
(d) The motif of light.

3. When Zeena suggests that Mattie has "taken from her" the one she cared about most of all, she is referring to _____________________________.
(a) The cat.
(b) Mattie's father.
(c) A tea towel.
(d) Her red pickle dish.

4. Ethan does his clearest thinking while _______________________________.
(a) Working familiar outdoor tasks.
(b) Talking to Zeena.
(c) Feeding the horses.
(d) Driving the lumber to town.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What spark in Ethan had not been completely extinguished by the Starkfield winters?

2. Who confesses the truth about the broken dish?

3. The smoke and haze from Ethan's pipe might represent ___________________________.

4. Ethan asks Mattie _________________________________.

5. Ethan feels too constrained to try to touch Mattie inside the house because ____________________________________________.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 297 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample