Ethan Frome Study Guide

1. Edith Wharton was born in

• 20th century England
• 19th century America
• 18th century England
• 20th century America

2. Edith Wharton's novels include all of the following except

• <i>Ethan Frome</i>
• <i>The Age of Innocence</i>
• <i>The Mill on the Floss</i>
• <i>The House of Mirth</i>

3. The setting of Wharton's childhood and early adulthood was

• the elite world of Paris' aristocrats
• the elite world of New York's aristocrats
• the harsh world of rural New England
• the elite world of London's aristocrats

4. In 1908, something happened to Wharton that may have had some influence on the writing of Ethan Frome. What was it?

• Wharton divorced her husband after he was paralyzed in a sledding accident
• Wharton was paralyzed in a sledding accident
• Wharton began an adulterous affair
• Wharton ended an affair with another woman

5. <i>Ethan Frome</i> is set in

• Paris, Ohio
• Starkfield, Massachusetts
• Nassau, New York
• Corelset, Kentucky

6. The novel is framed by a narrator who is

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

7. Frome immediately made an impression on the narrator because

• the narrator studies diseases of the spine
• he showed symptoms of the late stages of consumption
• of his great height, physical robustness despite a lame leg, and harsh expression
• of his shortness, vulnerability, and youthful eyes

8. The narrator lodges with

• Zeena Pierce, formerly Zeena Frome
• the carriage driver Harmon Gow
• the widowed Mrs. Mattie Frome
• the widowed Mrs. Ned Hale

9. The narrator ends up having more contact with Frome when Frome

• starts driving the narrator to the station in his sleigh
• comes to the narrator asking for help
• gets a job at the power plant
• leaves Starkfield

10. The narrator is doing a job

• for a nearby power plant
• studying local outcroppings of granite
• at a nearby grocery store
• in research at the local musem