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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Holgrave view Phoebe’s influence on Clifford and Hepzibah?
(a) She has brought them back to life.
(b) She is prolonging their despair.
(c) She has taught them to love again.
(d) She tortures them with a youth that is lost to them.

2. How does Clifford react to the portrait of the Colonel?
(a) He cannot look at it.
(b) He thinks he has seen the man before.
(c) He admires its artistry.
(d) He remembers that he had painted it.

3. What does the Judge repeatedly try to prevent Phoebe from doing?
(a) Insist he stay for lunch.
(b) Call Hepzibah.
(c) Leave the shop.
(d) Misjudge him.

4. Who does the Judge first mistake Phoebe for?
(a) A customer.
(b) A shop assistant.
(c) Hepzibah’s daughter.
(d) Alice’s ghost.

5. What does Phoebe tell Holgrave after he reads her his story?
(a) She is going to talk to the Judge.
(b) She is to return home for a while.
(c) She is secretly in love with him.
(d) She is not who she says she is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best describes Phoebe’s last conversation with Holgrave?

2. What does Gervais believe the Colonel had in his possession when he died?

3. What story does the Judge tell Phoebe?

4. How is young Maule related to old Matthew Maule?

5. What do Clifford and Hepzibah do after Clifford reappears following his meeting with the Judge?

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