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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Judge believe Clifford can help him with?
(a) Obtaining information about Holgrave.
(b) Supporting his political campaign.
(c) Recovering the missing deed.
(d) Talking Hepzibah into moving out.

2. What happens to Phoebe while Holgrave is reading his story?
(a) She becomes suddenly ill.
(b) She becomes very agitated.
(c) She falls asleep.
(d) She becomes hypnotized.

3. What does Gervais believe the builder must have known?
(a) The location of the lost deed.
(b) The truth about old Matthew Maule.
(c) The existence of a secret passage in the house.
(d) The secret at the bottom of the well.

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

5. What does Maule tell Gervais?
(a) The house is haunted.
(b) His grandfather is really guilty.
(c) The deed has been destroyed.
(d) That Pyncheon could keep his house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do the chickens spend much of their time?

3. What does Phoebe take charge of upon arriving at the House?

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

5. What was Matthew Maule accused of?

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