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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Mattie dances, Ethan notices ________________________________.
(a) That she uses gestures he has never seen before.
(b) That she uses the same gestures with other men that she uses with him.
(c) That she seems eager to find a husband in the crowd.
(d) That she seems detached and uninterested in other men.

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

3. Ethan needs to go into town to run what errand?
(a) He needs to buy a new dish for Zeena.
(b) He needs to pick up Zeena's medicine.
(c) He needs to buy glue to fix the pickle dish.
(d) He needs to pick up the hired girl from the train station.

4. When Zeena arrives home, she ______________________________.
(a) Tells Mattie she has hired a new girl.
(b) Leaves again to visit the town doctor.
(c) Demands that Mattie make dinner immediately.
(d) Goes right to her room without saying anything.

5. Ethan cannot buy glue from Michael Eady's store because _______________________________.
(a) Eady's wife would report it to Zeena.
(b) Denis cannot find it.
(c) Denis refuses to sell it to him.
(d) Eady's store is not open.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ethan and Jotham put off their trip into town because ________________________.

2. As he travels to town, Ethan dreams about ______________________________.

3. Who confesses the truth about the broken dish?

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

5. Ethan hopes that the bad roads or a late train might cause him to __________________________.

(see the answer key)

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