SparkNotes: Ethan Frome: Quiz

1. What is the name of Ethan Frome’s hometown?

(A) Starkfield

(B) Boston

(C) Deerfield

(D) Snowtown

2. With whom does the narrator lodge?

(A) Mattie Silver

(B) Zenobia Frome

(C) Mrs. Ned Hale

(D) Harmon Gow

3. What brings the narrator to Ethan Frome’s house?

(A) His desire to buy the Frome farm

(B) A snowstorm

(C) Labor negotiations

(D) A search for a missing girl

4. Who does Ethan wait for outside the church hall?

(A) Zeena

(B) The narrator

(C) Ruth Varnum

(D) Mattie Silver

5. What is taking place in the church hall?

(A) A dance

(B) A church service

(C) A political meeting

(D) A funeral

6. Which young man has an obvious romantic interest in Mattie?

(A) Andrew Hale

(B) Jotham Powell

(C) Denis Eady

(D) Ned Varnum

7. What color is the scarf that Mattie wears at the dance?

(A) Blue

(B) Red

(C) Green

(D) Silver

8. In what season does Ethan Frome take place?

(A) Spring

(B) Summer

(C) Fall

(D) Winter

9. What is the name of Ethan’s wife?

(A) Zeena

(B) Ruth

(C) Mattie

(D) He is unmarried

10. Why does Zeena decide to go away for a night?

(A) She wants to visit her relatives

(B) She needs to have an operation

(C) She wants to see a doctor in a neighboring town

(D) She has a job interview in another town

11. How did Ethan come to marry his wife?

(A) He met her at a church social

(B) She came to nurse his mother, and he proposed to her

(C) He met her while on a tour of duty in France

(D) The marriage was arranged by their fathers

12. What does Mattie make for dinner when she and Ethan are alone?

(A) Peas and stewed meat

(B) Pasta

(C) Corn and potatoes

(D) Pickles and doughnuts

13. Who breaks Zeena’s favorite dish?

(A) The cat

(B) Mattie

(C) Ethan

(D) Jotham Powell

14. What name is on the gravestone that Ethan often looks at?

(A) Ezekiel Frome

(B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

(C) Ethan From

(D) Zenobia Frome

15. What do Ethan and Mattie do when they are alone together at night?

(A) They kiss

(B) They talk uncomfortably and never touch

(C) They poison the cat

(D) They profess their mutual love

16. What does Ethan buy in town in Chapter VI?

(A) A new dress for Mattie

(B) Flowers for Zeena

(C) Lumber

(D) Glue to fix the broken dish

17. When Zeena returns, what does she tell Ethan?

(A) That she is divorcing him

(B) That she has hired a new girl to work in their house

(C) That she knows Ethan and Mattie are having an affair

(D) That she loves Ethan dearly and is sorry for her past coldness

18. What is Zeena’s plan for coming up with more money?

(A) She suggests that Ethan take another job

(B) She expects an inheritance

(C) She wants to cease harboring Mattie in their home

(D) She wants Mattie to take a job in town

19. What does Zeena discover after supper on the day of her return from Bettsbridge?

(A) Her broken pickle dish

(B) The cat’s dead body

(C) Ethan and Mattie kissing

(D) Dishes left unwashed from the previous night

20. Who does Zeena want to drive Mattie to the train?

(A) Ethan

(B) Mattie herself

(C) Ned Hale

(D) Jotham Powell

21. Who actually drives Mattie to the train?

(A) Jotham Powell

(B) Ethan

(C) Zeena

(D) Ruth Varnum

22. From whom does Ethan plan to get money in order to elope with Mattie?

(A) His parents

(B) Zeena

(C) Andrew Hale

(D) Jotham Powell

23. What do Mattie and Ethan do together before her train arrives?

(A) They go sledding

(B) They chop wood

(C) They poison Zeena

(D) They visit the graveyard

24. What does Mattie convince Ethan to do at the end of Chapter IX?

(A) Elope with her

(B) Divorce Zeena

(C) Move to Hawaii

(D) Commit suicide with her by sledding into a tree

25. Whom does the narrator find in Ethan’s house?

(A) Jotham Powell

(B) Two dead bodies

(C) Mattie, now married to Ethan

(D) Zeena and a crippled Mattie