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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Holgrave view Phoebe’s influence on Clifford and Hepzibah?
(a) She has taught them to love again.
(b) She has brought them back to life.
(c) She is prolonging their despair.
(d) She tortures them with a youth that is lost to them.

2. How is Gervais Pyncheon related to Colonel Pyncheon?
(a) He is his grandson.
(b) He is his nephew.
(c) He is his cousin.
(d) He is his son.

3. 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.

4. What uncharacteristic thing does Clifford decide to do one day?
(a) Ask Holgrave to teach him.
(b) Write a book about the Pyncheons.
(c) Confront the Judge.
(d) Blow soap bubbles out the window.

5. What did Colonel Pyncheon do during Maule’s execution?
(a) He drew up the plans for the House of Seven Gables.
(b) He left town on a train.
(c) He stood up close so he could look into Maule’s eyes.
(d) He watched from horseback in the distance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holgrave consider oppressive?

2. What does Holgrave try to do at the beginning of the novel?

3. What does the Judge attempt to do when he first meets Phoebe?

4. What does Maule tell Gervais?

5. How old is Holgrave?

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