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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hepzibah decide about her surprise guest at the beginning of the novel?
(a) This person can help her financially.
(b) This person is really a ghost.
(c) This person is not being honest with her.
(d) This person can only stay one night.

2. Whom does Phoebe meet in the garden?
(a) Holgrave.
(b) Uncle Venner.
(c) Ned Higgins.
(d) Judge Pyncheon.

3. What does Holgrave offer to Phoebe?
(a) To take her out to dinner.
(b) To write a book about her.
(c) To teach her his profession.
(d) To read a portion of his book to her.

4. What does Gervais believe the builder must have known?
(a) The truth about old Matthew Maule.
(b) The secret at the bottom of the well.
(c) The existence of a secret passage in the house.
(d) The location of the lost deed.

5. Who comes to the shop window after Phoebe has visited the garden the first time?
(a) The bill collector.
(b) A line of customers.
(c) The Judge.
(d) The fish dealer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Phoebe start taking Clifford?

2. What does Ned Higgins want from the individual who arrives by carriage while Clifford and Hepzibah are out of town?

3. What does Hepzibah beg Phoebe to do when someone comes to the shop window?

4. What is the Judge doing when Hepzibah finds him after his meeting with Clifford?

5. What does Clifford claim he saw in the well?

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