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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 did Matthew Maule die?
(a) He caught smallpox.
(b) He was shot.
(c) He was hanged.
(d) He was drowned.

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

3. What does Phoebe’s window look down on?
(a) The garden.
(b) The street.
(c) The Elm.
(d) The front walk.

4. Which of the following best describes Phoebe?
(a) Mannered and aristocratic.
(b) Disciplined and religious.
(c) Rustic and pretty.
(d) Fashionable and arrogant.

5. Who comes to the shop window after Phoebe has visited the garden the first time?
(a) The fish dealer.
(b) A line of customers.
(c) The bill collector.
(d) The Judge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on Gervais’ desk during the meeting with Maule?

2. What does Holgrave value?

3. In Chapter 13, the action flashes back to a story about whom?

4. What does Holgrave suggest Phoebe do the first time he meets her?

5. What does the Judge repeatedly try to prevent Phoebe from doing?

(see the answer key)

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