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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Zeena use to describe the state of her health?
(a) She says she has vapors.
(b) She says she has troubles.
(c) She says she has complications.
(d) She says she has tremors.

2. Wharton compares the darkened farmhouses to ________________.
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Sanctuaries.
(c) Haunted houses.
(d) Gravestones.

3. Lying in bed the previous night, Ethan regretted __________________________.
(a) Kissing Mattie.
(b) Not kissing Mattie.
(c) Not leaving Zeena long ago.
(d) Getting caught holding Mattie when Zeena opened the door.

4. Ethan enjoys following Zeena's orders at first because ___________________________________________.
(a) He cannot run the farm without her help.
(b) They free him to leave the house and go about his business.
(c) They remind him of when his mother was alive and well.
(d) They free him of responsibility to his home and family.

5. Ethan intends to hurry home for dinner so that __________________________________-.
(a) He can send Jotham can go home early.
(b) He can avoid seeing Zeena in town.
(c) He can serve Mattie instead of having her serve him.
(d) He can enjoy his last moments alone with Mattie before Zeena arrives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie's note to Ethan reads ___________________________.

2. What does Zeena claim the doctor has ordered her to do?

3. Mattie quickly moves from Zeena's chair as if ____________________________________.

4. What lie is revealed when Zeena presses Ethan to pay for a hired girl?

5. Zeena instructs Jotham Powell to ________________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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