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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ethan asks Mattie to sit in Zeena's chair because _____________________________.
(a) He can not hear her from across the room.
(b) He wants to pretend they are married.
(c) He wants to see how she would look there in place of his wife.
(d) He cannot see her from where he sits.

3. Ethan's room is unusable for several months of the year because ______________________________________.
(a) Zeena uses it as a sewing room in the winter.
(b) He had to move the stove to Mattie's room, so the study has no heat.
(c) Zeena uses it for storage.
(d) It faces the sunlight in the west.

4. Zeena's family gave Mattie ____________________________.
(a) Plenty of help, but she rejected them.
(b) Plenty of advice but little help.
(c) Plenty of money and advice.
(d) Money to start a new life for herself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While they walk home, Ethan expresses his concern that Mattie will __________________________.

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

3. Who confesses the truth about the broken dish?

4. Zeena is described as an old woman, although she is ____________________________.

5. Ethan does his clearest thinking while _______________________________.

(see the answer key)

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