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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the legend about the well?
(a) That a strange treasure is hidden in it.
(b) That its waters have magical qualities.
(c) That Alice Pyncheon died in it.
(d) That Matthew Maule bewitched it.

2. What kind of clothes is Clifford wearing when readers first meet him?
(a) Colorful and elaborate.
(b) Pale and worn out.
(c) Dark and somber.
(d) Sharp and stylish.

3. Whose portrait hangs on the wall in the parlor of the House?
(a) Judge Pyncheon.
(b) Clifford Pyncheon.
(c) Alice Pyncheon.
(d) Colonel Pyncheon.

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

5. Who built the House of Seven Gables?
(a) Ned Higgins.
(b) Matthew Maule’s son.
(c) Hawthorne's grandfather.
(d) Judge Pyncheon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who passes by the shop but does not enter at the beginning of the novel?

3. Who is Uncle Venner?

4. What is Clifford’s state of health?

5. How did Matthew Maule die?

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