Ethan Frome Reading Quiz Prologue / Chapter One

Ethan Frome is narrator in the Prologue.

• True

• False

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The setting of the novel is...

• Starkfield, Pennsylvania

• Starkfield, Massachusetts

• Florence, South Carolina

• New York City

Ethan Frome is disfigured. He has been in an accident that damaged his body.

• True

• False

Ethan Frome remained in town because...

• He got a good job and couldn't pass it up.

• His wife had a baby.

• He had to take care of his parents, and then his wife.

• Someone had to work the farm.

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Why does the narrator return home with Ethan Frome?

• They were friends and he was invited for dinner.

• The road was washed out during a summer rain storm.

• The weather was too bad, after a winter storm.

• The horse couldn't walk any longer.

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Who is Zenobia Frome?

• Ethan's mother

• Ethan's sister

• Ethan's girlfriend

• Ethan's wife

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Chapter One begins as a flashforward, showing Ethan older.

• True

• False

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In Chapter One, what is occurring in the church that Ethan is trying desperately to watch?

• A sermon

• A play

• A dance / party

• A dinner

WHO is Ethan trying so desperately to see through the church windows in Chapter One?

• His wife

• His future wife

• His wife's cousin, Mattie

• His sister, Mattie

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Ethan Frome has romantic feelings for his wife's cousin, Mattie.

• True

• False

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