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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Judge supposed to buy the next day?
(a) A new cane.
(b) The Maine property.
(c) A horse.
(d) The house.

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

3. Before helping Gervais, what does Maule insist on?
(a) A letter exonerating his ancestors.
(b) Meeting with Alice Pyncheon.
(c) That everyone in the house leave.
(d) Gervais signing over the house.

4. What is just outside the House?
(a) A sign advertising the shop.
(b) A streetlamp.
(c) A duck pond.
(d) An old elm tree.

5. What does Holgrave deduce at the end of the story that the Judge had done years before?
(a) Framed Clifford for the murder of their uncle.
(b) Written Phoebe into his will as the sole beneficiary.
(c) Paid for the construction of the house.
(d) Hidden the deed himself so it would never be found.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clifford act once he and Hepzibah have gotten out of town?

2. What do Holgrave and Phoebe admit to each other after she returns to the House?

3. What does Maule tell Gervais?

4. What does Hepzibah do after she opens the shop for the day at the beginning of the novel?

5. What does Clifford begin doing after Phoebe leaves?

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