1. For each word given below choose the correct meaning (as used in the passage) from the options provided: hearth:
foreign
urban area
the floor of a fireplace.

2. instinct:
reason
an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli.
knowledge

3. ambitious:
modest
difficult
having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.

4. What are the indicator's in the family that they had found the "herb, heart's-ease"?
The faces of the father and mother had a sober gladness; the children laughed; the eldest daughter was the image of Happiness at seventeen; and the aged grandmother, who sat knitting in the Warmest place, was the image of Happiness grown old.
The family were glad again when they perceived that the latch was lifted by some traveler, whose footsteps had been unheard amid the dreary blast which heralded his approach, and wailed as he was ent
The frank-hearted stranger had just drawn his chair to the fire when something like a heavy footstep was heard without, rushing down the steep side of the mountain, as with long and rapid strides, and

5. What was the kind of abode that belonged to the family?
It was one of those primitive taverns where the traveller pays only for food and lodging but meets with a homely kindness beyond all price.
It was a stage coach.
It was Ethan Crawford's.

6. What is the author's description about the locale in which the family was residing?
The stage-coach always drew up before the door of the cottage. The way-farer, with no companion but his staff, paused here to exchange a word, that the sense of loneliness might not utterly overcome him ere he could pass through the cleft of the mountain,
This family were situated in the Notch of the White Hills, where the wind was sharp throughout the year, and pitilessly cold in the winter giving their cottage all its fresh inclemency before it desc
The romantic pass of the Notch is a great artery, through which the life-blood of internal commerce is continually throbbing between Maine, on one side, and the Green Mountains and the shores of the S

7. What does the author say about the expression on the young man's face?
He was the image of Happiness at seventeen.
He was the image of Happiness grown old.
His face at first wore the melancholy expression, almost despondency, of one who travels a wild and bleak road, at nightfall and alone, but soon brightened up when he saw the kindly warmth of his rece

8. What does the author say about the hearth on that September night?
The frank-hearted stranger had just drawn his chair to the fire when something like a heavy footstep was heard without, rushing down the steep side of the mountain.
The family had gathered round their hearth, and piled it high with the driftwood of mountain streams, the dry cones of the pine, and the splintered ruins of great trees that had come crashing down the
Ah, this fire is the right thing!" cried he; "especially when there is such a pleasant circle round

9. What made the young man s expression brighten when he entered the abode ?
The way-farer, with no companion but his staff paused here to exchange a word, that the sense of loneliness might not utterly overcome him ere he could pass through the cleft of the mountain, or reach the first house in the valley.
Soon brightened up when he saw the kindly warmth of his reception. He felt his heart spring forward to meet them all, from the old woman who wiped a chair with her apron, to the little child that held
He sometimes nods his head and threatens to come down, But we are old neighbors, and agree together pretty well upon the whole.

10. What has the author said about the young man making himself feel a at home? Which of the following combination of sentences best summarizes the answer?
He sometimes nods his head and threatens to me come down but we are old neighbors, and agree together pretty well upon the whole.
It is no matter; for, when I saw this good fire and all your cheerful faces, I felt as if you had kindled it on purpose for me, and were waiting my arrival o I shall sit down among you, and make myse
Ah, this fire is the right thing!" cried he, "especially when there is such a pleasant circle round it. am quite benumbed.