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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hepzibah decide about her surprise guest at the beginning of the novel?
(a) This person can help her financially.
(b) This person is really a ghost.
(c) This person can only stay one night.
(d) This person is not being honest with her.

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

4. What did Maule do just before his death?
(a) He hypnotized his daughter.
(b) He spat up blood.
(c) He cursed the Pyncheon family.
(d) He poisoned his well.

5. What does Hepzibah do after she opens the shop for the day at the beginning of the novel?
(a) She invites the Judge to tea.
(b) She takes inventory.
(c) She takes a break in the garden.
(d) She sits down and weeps.

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

7. What does the Judge want to do when he arrives at the House and is speaking with Phoebe for the first time?
(a) Hire Holgrave.
(b) Talk to Clifford.
(c) Move into the house.
(d) Take the portrait.

8. What does Holgrave try to do at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Cheer Hepzibah up.
(b) Buy the house from Hepzibah.
(c) Talk Hepzibah into closing the shop.
(d) Steal a valuable painting.

9. What street is the House of Seven Gables on?
(a) Maule Avenue.
(b) Salem Street.
(c) Hawthorne Boulevard.
(d) Pyncheon Street.

10. Whose portrait hangs on the wall in the parlor of the House?
(a) Alice Pyncheon.
(b) Colonel Pyncheon.
(c) Judge Pyncheon.
(d) Clifford Pyncheon.

11. Hepzibah is whose sister?
(a) Uncle Venner’s.
(b) Matthew Maule’s.
(c) The Judge’s.
(d) The convicted murderer’s.

12. What is done to the portrait of the Colonel for Clifford's benefit?
(a) It is covered with a cloth.
(b) It is given to Clifford.
(c) It is taken down.
(d) It is placed up for auction.

13. What does the Judge attempt to do when he first meets Phoebe?
(a) Convince her to leave.
(b) Kiss her.
(c) Avoid her.
(d) Carry her shopping bags.

14. What story does the Judge tell Phoebe?
(a) The story of his uncle’s murder.
(b) The story of the House.
(c) The story of how he became a Judge.
(d) The story of Matthew Maule.

15. How does Hepzibah react to the Judge being at the House?
(a) She barrs him from entering the house.
(b) She warns him not to trust Phoebe.
(c) She pleads with him for money.
(d) She welcomes him with open arms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the legend about the well?

2. What might have prevented the Pyncheons from losing their fortune?

3. What does Hepzibah beg Phoebe to do when someone comes to the shop window?

4. Whom does the Judge remind Phoebe of?

5. What did Colonel Pyncheon do during Maule’s execution?

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