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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about the harpsichord at the House?
(a) It is said to occasionally play itself.
(b) It is the first one ever built.
(c) Colonel Pyncheon died while playing it.
(d) It originally belonged to a famous composer.

2. What does Phoebe’s window look down on?
(a) The street.
(b) The garden.
(c) The Elm.
(d) The front walk.

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

4. What does Ned Higgins want to buy?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) Cookies.
(c) Flour.
(d) A pound of meat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the roof of the House?

2. Which statement best describes how the relationship between Hepzibah and Phoebe unfolds?

3. What does the Judge want to do when he arrives at the House and is speaking with Phoebe for the first time?

4. What street is the House of Seven Gables on?

5. What does Holgrave suggest about the Judge?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you describe the House of Seven Gables?

2. Describe the events surrounding the murder that was committed 30 years before the start of the story.

3. Describe some of the "eerie" qualities of the House.

4. What do Hepzibah's feelings towards the Judge seem to be?

5. Who is Phoebe and how does Hepzibah react to her arrival?

6. Explain who Clifford is and describe his homecoming.

7. Describe the Puritan-era legal battle over the land the house sits on.

8. Describe Holgrave and Uncle Venner.

9. What were the Maules like as a family?

10. Describe how Phoebe comes to stay at the House.

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