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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How is Phoebe changing by the time she gains more free time?
(a) She is becoming more mature.
(b) She is becoming more impulsive.
(c) She is losing patience more quickly.
(d) She is being overcome with gloom.

4. What does Phoebe hear coming from the empty parts of the House?
(a) The growling of an animal.
(b) The sound of mournful weeping.
(c) The sounds of voices and music.
(d) The scraping of moving furniture.

5. What is on the roof of the House?
(a) A sun deck.
(b) A chicken coop.
(c) A bed of posies.
(d) A vegetable garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clifford react to Hepzibah’s welcome?

2. How does the Judge respond to Phoebe’s rebuff?

3. What does the narrator reflect on about the Judge toward the end of the book?

4. What is Hepzibah waiting for at the beginning of the novel?

5. Who arrives for a surprise visit at the House at the beginning of the novel?

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