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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 wants to give Clifford a job.
(b) She hops that Holgrave would manage it.
(c) She needs the money.
(d) She wants something to fill the time.

2. Who does the Judge first mistake Phoebe for?
(a) Hepzibah’s daughter.
(b) Alice’s ghost.
(c) A shop assistant.
(d) A customer.

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

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

5. What was Matthew Maule accused of?
(a) Fraud.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Witchcraft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the harpsichord at the House?

2. What does Phoebe hear coming from the empty parts of the House?

3. How does Hepzibah react to the Judge being at the House?

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

5. What did Colonel Pyncheon do during Maule’s execution?

(see the answer key)

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