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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who visited Mattie while Ethan was away during the day?
(a) Daniel Byrne.
(b) Jotham Powell.
(c) Andrew Hale.
(d) Denis Eady.

2. For Ethan, Zeena personifies ______________________________-.
(a) His love and support.
(b) All his triumphs and successes.
(c) All his failures and humiliations.
(d) His dishonesty and treachery.

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

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

5. Most of their quiet or intimate moments are interrupted by _____________________.
(a) Zeena.
(b) The cat.
(c) The wind.
(d) The dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Zeena suggests that Mattie has "taken from her" the one she cared about most of all, she is referring to _____________________________.

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

3. Ethan enjoys following Zeena's orders at first because ___________________________________________.

4. Mattie is afraid ______________________________________________.

5. Ethan dreads Zeena's trips to the doctor because _____________________________.

(see the answer key)

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