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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why were the Maules considered outcasts?
(a) They spent too much time with the natives.
(b) They were rumored to practice witchcraft.
(c) They were habitual criminals.
(d) They lived outside of town.

3. Which of the following best describes the Maules?
(a) They practiced witchcraft.
(b) Religious.
(c) Hard working.
(d) Arrogant.

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

5. Why has Hepzibah opened the shop?
(a) She hops that Holgrave would manage it.
(b) She needs the money.
(c) She wants to give Clifford a job.
(d) She wants something to fill the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the story of the land dispute known?

2. Which statement best describes the Pyncheons in the years after losing their fortune?

3. What kind of clothes is Clifford wearing when readers first meet him?

4. What was the symptom of this mysterious death that occurs when the Pyncheons move into the House?

5. Who is later convicted of murdering the owner of the House?

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