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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hepzibah waiting for at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The arrival of someone very important to her.
(b) The flowers in the garden to bloom.
(c) Someone to make an offer to buy the House.
(d) A delivery that was three days late.

2. Who arrives for a surprise visit at the House at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Matthew Maule.
(b) Cousin Phoebe.
(c) Hepzibah’s son.
(d) Alice Pyncheon.

3. What does Phoebe find in the garden?
(a) A family of chickens.
(b) A broken down carriage.
(c) A packet of old documents.
(d) The bones of an animal.

4. What does Phoebe do for Hepzibah her first morning at the House?
(a) She pays Hepzibah's mortgage.
(b) She does Hepzibah's laundry.
(c) She makes her breakfast.
(d) She paints Hepzibah's portrait.

5. What happened the day the Pyncheons moved into the House?
(a) Alice Pyncheon ran away.
(b) Jaffrey Pyncheon sued for possession of the house.
(c) Clifford Pyncheon was arrested.
(d) Colonel Pyncheon died.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the Judge remind Phoebe of?

2. Why is Holgrave at the house at the beginning of the novel?

3. What does Holgrave suggest Phoebe do the first time he meets her?

4. What does Phoebe’s window look down on?

5. What does Holgrave try to do at the beginning of the novel?

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