Chapter 7 questions

Chapter 7
Choose any two questions
Zeena does not come down to dinner. After mattie and Ethan sit down to eat, mattie senses that something is wrong and guesses that Zeena is going to send her away. Throwing caution to the wind, the couple "melt" together, seemingly heedless of the fact that Zeena is upstairs. Suppose you are Mattie and you decide that there is one of three things you could do to keep from being separated from Ethan: choose one of the following options. Explain your choice in detail.
-You would go upstairs and plead with Zeena not to send you away, telling her that you would work your fingers to the bone to try to do everything exactly as she wishes it to be done.
-You would marry Enis Eady in order to stay in Starkfield to be near Ethan, planning on an ongoing affair with him despite your marriage.
-A different plan of your choosing.

Answer: I would go upstairs and plead with Zeena not to send me away. I choose this one because I wouldn't want to marry Enis Eady and because I think I could convince Zeena to let me stay.

15. The author has dropped hints that Zeena may know more about the relationship between Ethan and Mattie than she is letting on. One hint in this chapter is, "No, they're in a place you know don't about,' Zeena answered darkly, with one of her secret looks." What is your opinion of how much Zeena suspects about Mattie and Ethan? Leaf back through the novel to find examples to include in your analysis.

Answer: Zeena is talking about the pickle dish because she keeps asking who broke the dish & when Mattie finally tells her that the cat did break it but she got it down Zeena is really angry. She keeps asking her why she took it down & she says to make the table look pretty. Then Zeena goes on to say that she knew not to take it down because Zeena doesn't even take it down for the minister to use or her Aunt when she comes in from Bettsbridge.