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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Judge want to do when he arrives at the House and is speaking with Phoebe for the first time?
(a) Move into the house.
(b) Hire Holgrave.
(c) Take the portrait.
(d) Talk to Clifford.

2. Whom does the Judge remind Phoebe of?
(a) Colonel Pyncheon.
(b) Her father.
(c) Mr. Holgrave.
(d) Matthew Maule.

3. What story does the Judge tell Phoebe?
(a) The story of how he became a Judge.
(b) The story of his uncle’s murder.
(c) The story of the House.
(d) The story of Matthew Maule.

4. Who arrives for a surprise visit at the House at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Hepzibah’s son.
(b) Alice Pyncheon.
(c) Matthew Maule.
(d) Cousin Phoebe.

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

6. What does the Judge attempt to do when he first meets Phoebe?
(a) Convince her to leave.
(b) Carry her shopping bags.
(c) Kiss her.
(d) Avoid her.

7. What does Holgrave try to do at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Steal a valuable painting.
(b) Talk Hepzibah into closing the shop.
(c) Cheer Hepzibah up.
(d) Buy the house from Hepzibah.

8. What does Phoebe find in the garden?
(a) A family of chickens.
(b) A packet of old documents.
(c) A broken down carriage.
(d) The bones of an animal.

9. Which statement best describes how the relationship between Hepzibah and Phoebe unfolds?
(a) They hit it off immediately.
(b) They quietly resent one another.
(c) They never quite trust each other.
(d) They slowly develop a bond.

10. What did Holgrave show Phoebe?
(a) A photo of the Judge.
(b) The flowers on the roof.
(c) A secret passage inside the house.
(d) An old scrapbook.

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

12. Hepzibah is whose sister?
(a) The convicted murderer’s.
(b) Matthew Maule’s.
(c) Uncle Venner’s.
(d) The Judge’s.

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

14. What does Hepzibah tell Phoebe about Holgrave?
(a) He once tried to set the house on fire.
(b) He is shy and unobtrusive.
(c) He associates with strange companions.
(d) He is law-abiding and respectful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Matthew Maule die?

2. Which of the following best describes Phoebe?

3. What is Clifford’s state of health?

4. Who passes by the shop but does not enter at the beginning of the novel?

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

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