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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is unusual about the harpsichord at the House?
(a) Colonel Pyncheon died while playing it.
(b) It is the first one ever built.
(c) It is said to occasionally play itself.
(d) It originally belonged to a famous composer.

3. How does Hepzibah feel after her first day running the shop?
(a) Much better.
(b) A little bit better.
(c) Much worse.
(d) About the same.

4. How does Hepzibah feel towards the Judge at the beginning of the book?
(a) She pities him.
(b) She hates him.
(c) She loves him.
(d) She relies on him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hepzibah decide about her surprise guest at the beginning of the novel?

2. What does Hepzibah do after she opens the shop for the day at the beginning of the novel?

3. How did Matthew Maule die?

4. What is Clifford’s state of health?

5. For what crime has Clifford been convicted?

(see the answer key)

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