Ethan Frome

Type of story structure that presents a story within a story--this is the structure for this novel.

• narrative
• epic

• frame story 
• tragedy

Point of view of the Prologue and Epilogue

• first person
• second person
• third person
• both first and third

Point of view of Ch. 1-9

• first person 
• third person limited

• third person omniscient

• third person objective

The dominant tone throughout the novel Ethan Frome can be best described as

• neutral and objective

• reflective and dreamlike

• cheerless and depressing
• foreboding and suspenseful 

Which of the following quotes does NOT help establish the tone of Ethan Frome?

• "Here and there a farmhouse stood far back among the fields, mute and cold as a gravestone."
• "They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and grey under the stars."
• "The spruces swathed them in blackness and silence. They might have been in their coffins underground."
• "But when Zenobia's doctor recommended her looking about for some one to help her with the house-work the clan instantly saw the chance of exacting a compensation from Mattie."

Which of the following is NOT a broad theme explored in Ethan Frome?

• too many choices in life

• the effect of one's surroundings on one's life

• isolation and inner turmoil

• oppressed hopes and thwarted ambitions

In the novel Ethan Frome, the cat symbolizes

• their troubled marriage

• death

• Zeena
• Mattie

In the novel Ethan Frome, Mattie's red fascinator (scarf) and the red ribbon in her hair symbolize

• youthful vigor/life force

• the pickle dish

• the passion she brings into Ethan's world

• all of these

The town name and it's symbolic meaning

• Starkville, bleak and empty surroundings

• Starkfield, the barren absence of a vigorous life

• Starkberry, death and bleakness

• Starkberg, an isolated and ice-block of a community

In the novel Ethan Frome, the broken pickle dish symbolizes

• Ethan and Zeena's marriage
• Ethan's broken heart and body

• Zeena's broken health

• a shattered dream of passion with Mattie