Ethan Frome

Who wields the most power in the Frome household?

• Mattie

• Ethan

• Zeena

What keeps Ethan from insisting that Mattie stay?

• He is afraid of what people will think.

• He is afraid of Zeena.

• He feels guilty about his love for Mattie

• He had promised that Mattie would only stay one year.

What has Zeena done while out of town that displeases Ethan?

• She has hired a servant.

• She has bad-mouthed Ethan to her relatives.-

• She has spent too much money on medicine.

• She has purchased new clothes.

What makes Zeena cry?

• She knows that Ethan loves Mattie.

• She sees Ethan and Mattie kissing.

• She is afraid to die.

• Her pickle dish is broken.

Who broke the pickle dish?

• Mattie

• a mouse

• the cat

• Ethan

Who wields the least power in the Frome household?

• Zeena

• Ethan

• Mattie

What is the setting of Ethan Frome?

• St. Augustine, Florida

• Starkfield, Massachusetts

• Anchorage, Alaska

• Fraser's Ridge, North Carolina

Who wrote Ethan Frome?

• T. S. Eliot

• Edith Wharton

• Alexander Bill

• Earnest Hemingway

The narrator ends up staying at Ethan's house because ______.

• the snowstorm grows too severe for further travel

• the carriage breaks down on the trip back to town

• Ethan's wife graciously invites him to stay

• the narrator agrees to pay for room and board to stay there

The narrator is frustrated by Ethan's story because _____.

• no one is willing to fill in the many gaps in the story

• no one even knows what really happened to Ethan

• no one has lived in Starkfield long enough to remember what happened

• no one likes Ethan enough to tell the narrator what happened