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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the chickens spend much of their time?
(a) Pecking at Clifford’s feet.
(b) Following Phoebe.
(c) Around Maule’s well.
(d) Nesting in the summer house.

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

3. Who passes by the shop but does not enter at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Clifford Pyncheon.
(b) Matthew Maule.
(c) The Judge.
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne.

4. Whom does the Judge remind Phoebe of?
(a) Mr. Holgrave.
(b) Matthew Maule.
(c) Her father.
(d) Colonel Pyncheon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems to occur with every generation of Pyncheons?

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

3. How does Phoebe’s presence influence Clifford?

4. What story does the Judge tell Phoebe?

5. Who arrives for a surprise visit at the House at the beginning of the novel?

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