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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Clifford act once he and Hepzibah have gotten out of town?
(a) He seems like he does not know Hepzibah.
(b) He goes from excited to tired.
(c) He grows increasingly anxious.
(d) He seems determined to start a new life.

2. What does Hepzibah mourn the loss of?
(a) The years Clifford’s incarceration cost them.
(b) Her lost youth and beauty.
(c) Phoebe’s coming departure.
(d) The presence of their uncle.

3. What recent addition has been made to the House?
(a) The shop window.
(b) A new garden.
(c) A guest house.
(d) The seventh gable.

4. How have Clifford’s views changed by the time he is on the train?
(a) He is suddenly filled with pity for the Judge.
(b) His views on modernity are more like Holgrave’s.
(c) He suddenly wants to donate the family fortune to charity.
(d) He has decided he would rather live in France.

5. What does Holgrave finally reveal about himself at the end of the novel?
(a) He was a reporter sent on an undercover assignment.
(b) He had secretly faked the haunting of the house.
(c) He had known all along about Clifford’s innocence.
(d) He was a descendant of Matthew Maule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holgrave show Phoebe when she returns to the House?

2. How does Hepzibah try to cheer Clifford up?

3. What does Clifford say he wanted back?

4. What is Hepzibah waiting for at the beginning of the novel?

5. Back at the House, while Clifford and Hepzibah are leaving town, what is the Judge doing?

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