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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 Phoebe’s presence influence Clifford?
(a) She deepens his sadness.
(b) She makes him feel young again.
(c) She relieves his depression.
(d) She makes him suspicious.

2. What is Uncle Venner always talking about?
(a) His long-lost nephew.
(b) Retiring to his farm.
(c) Alice’s ghost.
(d) His ill health.

3. How does Clifford react to the portrait of the Colonel?
(a) He cannot look at it.
(b) He thinks he has seen the man before.
(c) He admires its artistry.
(d) He remembers that he had painted it.

4. What sneaky thing does Maule do?
(a) He attacks Gervais.
(b) He removes the floorboards.
(c) He hypnotizes Alice.
(d) He poisons the well.

5. Who is Gervais Pyncheon?
(a) An outcast from the Pyncheon family.
(b) A previous master of the house.
(c) A distant relation of the original Pyncheons.
(d) Clifford’s great uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hepzibah feel towards the Judge at the beginning of the book?

2. What does Holgrave suggest about the Judge?

3. What do Clifford and Hepzibah do after Clifford reappears following his meeting with the Judge?

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

5. What does Holgrave consider oppressive?

(see the answer key)

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