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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Hepzibah waiting for at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The flowers in the garden to bloom.
(b) A delivery that was three days late.
(c) The arrival of someone very important to her.
(d) Someone to make an offer to buy the House.

4. At the story’s opening, how many members of the Pyncheon family are left living?
(a) 300.
(b) 4.
(c) 37.
(d) 1.

5. Who is later convicted of murdering the owner of the House?
(a) The owner's brother.
(b) The owner's nephew.
(c) The owner's father.
(d) The owner's uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clifford do when he sees the political rally?

2. Which best describes the Judge’s treatment of Clifford?

3. Which statement best describes how the relationship between Hepzibah and Phoebe unfolds?

4. What was the symptom of this mysterious death that occurs when the Pyncheons move into the House?

5. Why is Holgrave at the house at the beginning of the novel?

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