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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might have prevented the Pyncheons from losing their fortune?
(a) If Alice had chosen to study abroad.
(b) If Colonel Pyncheon had lived.
(c) If the shop window had never been installed in the House.
(d) If Clifford had been acquitted of murder.

2. Who is Uncle Venner?
(a) Holgrave’s employer.
(b) A kindly neighbor.
(c) Hepzibah’s uncle.
(d) The Pyncheon’s lawyer.

3. What does Ned Higgins want to buy?
(a) A pound of meat.
(b) Flour.
(c) Cookies.
(d) A newspaper.

4. What happened the day the Pyncheons moved into the House?
(a) Alice Pyncheon ran away.
(b) Clifford Pyncheon was arrested.
(c) Jaffrey Pyncheon sued for possession of the house.
(d) Colonel Pyncheon died.

5. What does Hepzibah do after she opens the shop for the day at the beginning of the novel?
(a) She takes a break in the garden.
(b) She sits down and weeps.
(c) She takes inventory.
(d) She invites the Judge to tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What recent addition has been made to the House?

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

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

4. Why were the Maules considered outcasts?

5. What becomes of the cousin of the convicted murderer?

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