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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Judge doing when Hepzibah finds him after his meeting with Clifford?
(a) Digging a hole in the garden.
(b) Sitting motionless in a chair.
(c) Searching through Clifford’s papers.
(d) Cooking a meal in the kitchen.

2. Which statement best describes the initial relationship between Hepzibah and Clifford?
(a) They want nothing to do with each other.
(b) They quietly distrust each other.
(c) They attempt to bond without luck.
(d) They try to make up for lost time.

3. What does Hepzibah mourn the loss of?
(a) Phoebe’s coming departure.
(b) Her lost youth and beauty.
(c) The presence of their uncle.
(d) The years Clifford’s incarceration cost them.

4. How is Phoebe changing by the time she gains more free time?
(a) She is being overcome with gloom.
(b) She is becoming more mature.
(c) She is losing patience more quickly.
(d) She is becoming more impulsive.

5. Who is Gervais Pyncheon?
(a) A distant relation of the original Pyncheons.
(b) Clifford’s great uncle.
(c) A previous master of the house.
(d) An outcast from the Pyncheon family.

6. How does Phoebe’s presence influence Clifford?
(a) She makes him suspicious.
(b) She relieves his depression.
(c) She deepens his sadness.
(d) She makes him feel young again.

7. What uncharacteristic thing does Clifford decide to do one day?
(a) Confront the Judge.
(b) Blow soap bubbles out the window.
(c) Ask Holgrave to teach him.
(d) Write a book about the Pyncheons.

8. What does Phoebe name the rooster?
(a) Chillingworth.
(b) Hercules.
(c) D'artagnan.
(d) Chanticleer.

9. What does Clifford enjoy watching from the arched windows?
(a) The neighborhood kids playing stick-ball in the street.
(b) The trains coming in and out of the station.
(c) The barrel-organ player with his dancing monkey.
(d) The comings and goings of Alice's ghost.

10. How does the atmosphere of the House influence Phoebe?
(a) It triggers her desire to escape.
(b) It darkens her usually sunny disposition.
(c) It makes her sadder by the day.
(d) It amplifies her generally depressive nature.

11. What does Holgrave consider oppressive?
(a) The mood of the house.
(b) The unchanging past.
(c) The uncertain future.
(d) The expectations of society.

12. What does Clifford say he wanted back?
(a) His fortune.
(b) His youth.
(c) His mind.
(d) His happines.

13. What sneaky thing does Maule do?
(a) He attacks Gervais.
(b) He poisons the well.
(c) He removes the floorboards.
(d) He hypnotizes Alice.

14. What happens to Phoebe while Holgrave is reading his story?
(a) She falls asleep.
(b) She becomes very agitated.
(c) She becomes suddenly ill.
(d) She becomes hypnotized.

15. Maule offers to help Gervais in exchange for what?
(a) Alice’s hand in marriage.
(b) Clearing his grandfather’s name.
(c) Half the Pyncheons’ fortune
(d) The House of Seven Gables.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clifford react every time he hears the train engines?

2. How does Holgrave view Phoebe’s influence on Clifford and Hepzibah?

3. What development gives Phoebe more free time?

4. What did Maule’s father do?

5. Holgrave tells Phoebe which story?

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