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Ethan Frome Quiz 1

  • 1. Edith Wharton was born in
    •     20th century America
    •     20th century England
    •     19th century America
    •     18th century England

  • 2. Edith Wharton's novels include all of the following except
    •     <i>The House of Mirth</i>
    •     <i>The Age of Innocence</i>
    •     <i>Ethan Frome</i>
    •     <i>The Mill on the Floss</i>

  • 3. The setting of Wharton's childhood and early adulthood was
    •     the harsh world of rural New England
    •     the elite world of London's aristocrats
    •     the elite world of New York's aristocrats
    •     the elite world of Paris' aristocrats

  • 4. In 1908, something happened to Wharton that may have had some influence on the writing of Ethan Frome. What was it?
    •     Wharton ended an affair with another woman
    •     Wharton began an adulterous affair
    •     Wharton divorced her husband after he was paralyzed in a sledding accident
    •     Wharton was paralyzed in a sledding accident

  • 5. Ethan Frome is set in
    •     Paris, Ohio
    •     Corelset, Kentucky
    •     Nassau, New York
    •     Starkfield, Massachusetts

  • 6. The novel is framed by a narrator who is
    •     named Edgar and is the last son of the local aristocracy
    •     unnamed and from outside of Starkfield
    •     Ethan Frome's son
    •     a wealthy businesswoman who has been married several times

  • 7. Frome immediately made an impression on the narrator because
    •     the narrator studies diseases of the spine
    •     of his shortness, vulnerability, and youthful eyes
    •     of his great height, physical robustness despite a lame leg, and harsh expression
    •     he showed symptoms of the late stages of consumption

  • 8. The narrator lodges with
    •     the widowed Mrs. Mattie Frome
    •     Zeena Pierce, formerly Zeena Frome
    •     the carriage driver Harmon Gow
    •     the widowed Mrs. Ned Hale

  • 9. The narrator ends up having more contact with Frome when Frome
    •     gets a job at the power plant
    •     comes to the narrator asking for help
    •     starts driving the narrator to the station in his sleigh
    •     leaves Starkfield

  • 10. The narrator is doing a job
    •     for a nearby power plant
    •     at a nearby grocery store
    •     studying local outcroppings of granite
    •     in research at the local musem

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