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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 does the Judge want to do when he arrives at the House and is speaking with Phoebe for the first time?
(a) Hire Holgrave.
(b) Talk to Clifford.
(c) Take the portrait.
(d) Move into the house.

2. How is the story of the land dispute known?
(a) By town records.
(b) By word of mouth.
(c) By Pyncheon’s autobiography.
(d) By local newspapers.

3. Whom does Phoebe meet in the garden?
(a) Judge Pyncheon.
(b) Uncle Venner.
(c) Ned Higgins.
(d) Holgrave.

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

5. Which statement best describes the Pyncheons in the years after losing their fortune?
(a) They rebuilt their fortune with grit and determination.
(b) They became very religious and charitable.
(c) They moved to Maine and started new lives.
(d) They descended into corruption and avarice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Phoebe’s window look down on?

3. Whom does the Judge remind Phoebe of?

4. Which of the following best describes the Maules?

5. What has Hepzibah refused to accept?

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