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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ethan finds Zeena _______________________________.
(a) Crying by the window.
(b) Sitting by the window still in her traveling dress.
(c) Already bundled up in bed.
(d) Waiting by the door to confront him.

2. As he prepares the sorrel, Ethan remembers ______________________________.
(a) The day he first brought Zeena home.
(b) The day he drove to the station to meet Mattie.
(c) The day he returned to Starkfield.
(d) The day his mother died.

3. Who has been worrying about the narrator's safety?
(a) Mattie Silver.
(b) Ruth Varnum Hale.
(c) Ethan Frome.
(d) Zeena Frome.

4. The day's bad weather foreshadows _________________________.
(a) The death of Ethan's horses.
(b) Mattie's rejection of Ethan.
(c) Ethan's bankruptcy.
(d) An unhappy reunion with Zeena.

5. What excuse does Zeena use to try to keep Ethan from driving Mattie to the train?
(a) She claims he needs to fix the stove in his study.
(b) She claims he needs to fix the stove in Mattie's room.
(c) She claims she is feeling her sickness coming on again.
(d) She claims Mattie does not want him to drive her.

6. As they head into town, Ethan points out ____________________________________________.
(a) A place where they might hide out from Zeena.
(b) Several places Mattie might go after leaving Starkfield.
(c) Several places where he and Mattie had been together.
(d) The positive aspects of Mattie's situation.

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

8. After the sled accident, Mattie _____________________________________.
(a) Was brought to recover at the Hales' house.
(b) Was cast out again by Zeena and Ethan.
(c) Was sent back to her family in another town.
(d) Was cared for by the Eady family.

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

10. Why is the lumber especially hard for Ethan to load?
(a) The tree trunks keep breaking.
(b) The wagon is too short to carry them.
(c) The tree trunks are slippery.
(d) The logs are frozen together.

11. Why does Ethan think Zeena has not arrived at home yet?
(a) Mattie tells him they are still alone together.
(b) The sorrel is not in the barn, so he believes they have not arrived.
(c) Jotham Powell hides the sorrel until Ehtan goes into the house.
(d) Zeena tells Jotham to put the sorrel away where Ethan will not see it.

12. Ethan's defeat is reflected in his ________________________________________________.
(a) Disappointment in Zeena's personality.
(b) Disappointment in the images of nature around him.
(c) Disappointment in Starkfield.
(d) Disappointment in Mattie's attitude.

13. When they are alone outside together, Ethan tells Mattie __________________________________.
(a) That Zeena knows all about their love for each other.
(b) That he will drive her to the train himself.
(c) That he will never see her again after tonight.
(d) That he will send her trunk along after she is settled somewhere.

14. Why does the memory of the Fromes' place cause Mrs. Hale pain?
(a) Mrs. Hale remembers Mattie keeping the house clean.
(b) Mrs. Hale remembers living with the Fromes briefly before her marriage.
(c) Mrs. Hale remembers Zeena throwing parties.
(d) Mrs. Hale remembers when the house was well-kept by Ethan's mother.

15. Secretly, Ethan wanted to put off his trip into town because it meant _________________________________.
(a) He could help Mattie clean up the breakfast dishes.
(b) He could send Jotham to pick up Zeena from the Flats.
(c) He could speak to Andrew Hale about money again.
(d) He could go home and spend the day with Mattie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zeena reply to Mattie's remarks?

2. Why isn't Zeena fooled by Ethan's claim that the cat broke her pickle dish?

3. Ethan needs to go into town to run what errand?

4. Ethan senses something went wrong with Zeena because _______________________________.

5. Ethan knows he cannot leave Starkfield with Mattie because ________________________________________.

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