Ethan Frome Test

Question 1

Takes care of the sick Frome

Answer 1

Mattie

Question 2

Goes to the post office everyday

Answer 2

Ethan Frome

Question 3

Has a romantic interest in Mattie

Answer 3

Ethan Frome

Question 4

Falls in love with a married man

Answer 4

Mattie

Question 5

Refuses to stay for dinner at the Fromes

Answer 5

Johtham Powell

Question 6

Sells her piano

Answer 6

Mattie

Question 7

Shares his copy of “Popular Mechanics”

Answer 7

The Narrator

Question 8

Is symbolic for the pickle dish

Answer 8

Ethan Frome

Question 9

Tries to repair the pickle dish before Zenna returns

Answer 9

Ethan Frome

Question 10

Refuses to give Ethan an advance

Answer 10

Andrew Hale

Question 11

Helps Mattie move her trunk

Answer 11

Ethan Frome

Question 12

Wants Mattie to leave

Answer 12

Zeena

Question 13

Becomes fascinated with Frome

Answer 13

The Narrator

Question 14

Lies about getting paid in advance for work

Answer 14

Ethan Frome

Question 15

Was forced to stay overnight at the Frome Farm

Answer 15

The Narrator

Question 16

Quit college for family reasons

Answer 16

Ethan Frome

Question 17

Refuses to abandon Zeena

Answer 17

Ethan Frome

Question 18

List 5 of the 7 major themes

Answer 18

Poverty 
Isolation 
Lost Potential 
Determinism 
Repressed Passion

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Ethan cannot leave the farm 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 penniless and must rely on her cousin’s family for financial support

Question 20

How does Zenna foreshadow Matie?

Answer 20

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 21

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

Answer 21

Sleet makes work slow

Question 22

Give two examples of how Ethan is the pickle dish.

Answer 22

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 23

How is the foreshadowing revealed in chapter 9?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

How is Chapter 10 Zenna’s chapter?

Answer 24

Zeena is in complete control, Ethan needs her now, Mattie no longer poses a threat. All is stable and fixed; just like Zeena wants it to be

Question 25

How the story is framed

Answer 25

By an anonymous first-person narrator

Question 26

What is an extension of Starkfield?

Answer 26

Frome (think old Ethan) Zeena-turns from a lively vibrant woman to a sickly hypochondriac Ethan’s Mom-Slowly goes insane

Question 27

What does the glue represent?

Answer 27

Frustrations and Unfulfilled Plans

Question 28

The novel’s setting

Answer 28

Starkfield

Question 29

What does the glue represent?

Answer 29

Frustrations and Unfulfilled Plans

Question 30

Which character is associated with honor?

Answer 30

Ethan

Question 31

Ethan’s relationship with Zeena

Answer 31

He owes her

Question 32

Determinism in EF

Answer 32

Marriage

Question 33

Naturalism in EF

Answer 33

The Sled Ride-Free will and fate

Question 34

Naturalism in EF

Answer 34

The Sled Ride-Free will and fate

Question 35

The cat and the mouse

Answer 35

Mattie and Ethan

Question 36

The cat and the rocking chair

Answer 36

Guilt

Question 37

The red pickle dish

Answer 37

Ethan Frome

Question 38

The sled ride

Answer 38

Free will

Question 39

The dilapidated kitchen

Answer 39

Poverty

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Poverty. Poverty is big in this story. All 3 characters are trapped with poverty in some way. Ethan cannot leave the farm because he has no education because of his parents health. Zeena is too ill to provide for herself and Ethan is not heartless enough to leave her.Mattie is penniless and must rely on her cousin’s family for financial support. Regarding the poverty of Zeena, she refuses to use her pickle dish. The reason she gets so fussy over her possession with the dish is because of poverty. At the end of the story poverty has become a soul destroyer, Ethan is forced into happiness over and over, and Mattie is too crippled to leave the farm. Poverty over takes these characters life's little by little.