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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gives Ethan a sense of mastery at the end of the chapter?
(a) Knowing he had deceived Zeena.
(b) Giving Mattie orders.
(c) Quelling Mattie's fears over the broken pickle dish.
(d) Building a fire and cleaning up the house.

2. The smoke and haze from Ethan's pipe might represent ___________________________.
(a) The threat of death.
(b) Societal oppression.
(c) Zeena's ghost.
(d) Confusion of reality.

3. Mattie Silver has lived with the Fromes for _______________.
(a) Six months.
(b) Five years.
(c) One month.
(d) A year.

4. When Ethan returns to Mattie, he tells her _______________________________.
(a) He has never loved Zeena.
(b) He will be leaving with her the following day.
(c) She must leave the following day.
(d) She must be married as soon as possible.

5. Zeena is described as an old woman, although she is ____________________________.
(a) Only twenty-five years old.
(b) Only thirty-five years old.
(c) Only twenty-eight years old.
(d) Only twenty-seven years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of asking the Hales for money, Ethan _________________________.

2. How does Ethan solve the glue problem?

3. Ethan cannot buy glue from Michael Eady's store because _______________________________.

4. Zeena does not want to move from Starkfield because ________________________________________.

5. Zeena asks Ethan if Jotham Powell can _________________________.

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