ethan frome test

Question 1

Takes care of the sick Frome

Answer 1

Zeena

Question 2

Goes to the post office everyday

Answer 2

-Ethan

Question 3

Has a romantic interest in Mattie

Answer 3

-Ethan

Question 4

Falls in love with a married man

Answer 4

-Mattie

Question 5

Refuses to stay for dinner at the Fromes

Answer 5

-Jotham

Question 6

Sells her piano

Answer 6

-Mattie

Question 7

Shares his copy of “Popular Mechanics”

Answer 7

-Narrator

Question 8

Is symbolic for the pickle dish

Answer 8

-Ethan

Question 9

Was left penniless by her father

Answer 9

-Mattie

Question 10

Is very ill and visits numerous doctors

Answer 10

-Zeena

Question 11

Took Zeena to the train station

Answer 11

-Jotham

Question 12

Tries to repair the pickle dish before Zenna returns

Answer 12

-Ethan

Question 13

Refuses to give Ethan an advance

Answer 13

-Andrew Hale

Question 14

Helps Mattie move her trunk

Answer 14

-Ethan

Question 15

Wants Mattie to leave

Answer 15

-Zeena

Question 16

Becomes fascinated with Frome

Answer 16

-Narrator

Question 17

Lies about getting paid in advance for work

Answer 17

-Ethan

Question 18

Was forced to stay overnight at the Frome Farm

Answer 18

-Mattie

Question 19

Quit college for family reasons

Answer 19

-Ethan

Question 20

Refuses to abandon Zeena

Answer 20

-Ethan

Question 21

List 5 of the 7 major themes-

Answer 21

Passion, Determinism/Naturalism, Land/People, Isolation, poverty, Lost Potential, and loss and transience

Question 22

Tell how each of the 3 main characters are trapped in poverty.

Answer 22

Ethan cannot leave the farm because he has no education due to his family’s poverty.
Zeena is too ill to provide for herself and Ethan is not heartless enough to leave her.
Mattie is destitute and must rely on her cousin’s family for financial support.

Question 23

How does Zenna foreshadow Mattie?

Answer 23

Zeena was once a vibrant and lively young woman. She is no longer due to the harsh life on the Frome farm.Mattie’s actions are parallel Zeena’s from the night before

Question 24

Give an example of the Environment’s power over man from the novel.

Answer 24

Horse falls
Sleet makes work slow
Ethan is powerless to do anything about the weather

Question 25

Give two examples of how Ethan is the pickle dish.

Answer 25

Zeena possesses Ethan;she clings to him

When Zeena verbally attacks Mattie it’s hard to tell if she is speaking about the dish or about Ethan

Question 26

How is the foreshadowing revealed in chapter 9?

Answer 26

The reader already knew that Ethan had a terrible accident and that he lived through it

Question 27

How is Chapter 10 Mattie’s chapter?

Answer 27

Ethan needs her now
Zeena needs her now
Mattie no longer poses a threat

Question 28

The novel’s setting

Answer 28

Starkfield

Question 29

How is the story framed?

Answer 29

Anonymous narrator

Question 30

What is an extension of Starkfield?

Answer 30

Frome farm

Question 31

What does the glue represent?

Answer 31

Ethan doesn’t have control over environment

Question 32

Which character is associated with honor?

Answer 32

Ethan

Question 33

Ethan’s relationship with Zeena

Answer 33

He owes her

Question 34

The cat and the mouse

Answer 34

Mattie and Ethan

Question 35

The cat and the rocking chair

Answer 35

Guilt

Question 36

The red pickle dish

Answer 36

Ethan

Question 37

The sled ride

Answer 37

Free will

Question 38

The dilapidated kitchen

Answer 38

Poverty

Question 39

Choose 1 of the 7 major themes of the novel and explain how it is developed throughout the novel

Answer 39

Poverty is a reoccurring theme in Ethan Frome. The reason why Zeena came to the Frome farm was because of Ethan’s sick mother. Due to his mother being sick, he was in poverty. Then, when Mattie comes she’s in poverty from her father. Because Ethan didn’t go to college when he should’ve, he’s been in poverty ever since. Poverty seems to run throughout the farm.