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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 is Holgrave’s occupation?
(a) A daguerreotypist.
(b) A harpsichord tuner.
(c) A hypnotist.
(d) A real estate broker.

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

3. What did Maule do just before his death?
(a) He hypnotized his daughter.
(b) He cursed the Pyncheon family.
(c) He poisoned his well.
(d) He spat up blood.

4. What does Phoebe do that cheers Clifford the most?
(a) Talks.
(b) Laughs.
(c) Reads poetry.
(d) Listens to his stories.

5. What does Holgrave predict that people will stop doing?
(a) Painting portraits.
(b) Building houses.
(c) Working for a living.
(d) Riding horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the story’s opening, how many members of the Pyncheon family are left living?

2. What does Holgrave deduce at the end of the story that the Judge had done years before?

3. Before helping Gervais, what does Maule insist on?

4. What does Hepzibah tell Phoebe about Holgrave?

5. Where do the chickens spend much of their time?

(see the answer key)

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