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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Judge come to the house after Phoebe has left?
(a) To talk to Clifford.
(b) To offer Hepzibah more money.
(c) To see Holgrave.
(d) To seize ownership of the house.

2. What does Clifford begin doing after Phoebe leaves?
(a) Running for political office.
(b) Playing Alice’s harpsichord.
(c) Researching who really killed his uncle.
(d) Looking for the lost deed.

3. What does Holgrave decide to experiment with?
(a) To determine the true age of the Colonel’s portrait.
(b) To measure the depth of the well.
(c) To see if the old seeds from the Colonel’s time will sprout.
(d) To see if he can photograph Alice Pyncheon’s ghost.

4. What eventually drives Alice to her death?
(a) Her obsession with finding the deed.
(b) Her broken heart over losing Maule.
(c) A form of madness that runs in the family.
(d) Maule’s unrelenting domination of her.

5. What does Clifford enjoy watching from the arched windows?
(a) The neighborhood kids playing stick-ball in the street.
(b) The comings and goings of Alice's ghost.
(c) The barrel-organ player with his dancing monkey.
(d) The trains coming in and out of the station.

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

7. What development gives Phoebe more free time?
(a) Holgrave’s increased help.
(b) Clifford’s emotional recovery.
(c) The death of Uncle Venner.
(d) The closure of the shop.

8. How does Clifford act when he appears again after his meeting with the Judge?
(a) Angry and resentful.
(b) Old and weak.
(c) Frightened and shaking.
(d) Excited and energized.

9. What does Holgrave predict that people will stop doing?
(a) Painting portraits.
(b) Working for a living.
(c) Building houses.
(d) Riding horses.

10. What does Hepzibah do while Clifford talks to the Judge?
(a) She writes a letter to Phoebe.
(b) She sits and watches the street.
(c) She sweeps the floor in the shop.
(d) She talks with Holgrave.

11. What happens to the mood in the House after Phoebe leaves?
(a) It does not change very much.
(b) It returns to its former gloom.
(c) It continues to become happier.
(d) It becomes too unbearable to live in it.

12. What does Clifford do when he sees the political rally?
(a) He decides to run for office.
(b) He turns away in disgust.
(c) He shouts insults at the candidates.
(d) He tries to jump from the window.

13. How does Clifford react every time he hears the train engines?
(a) As if they trigger a painful memory.
(b) As if he does not hear it at all.
(c) As if he wants to ride away on one.
(d) As if he has never heard them before.

14. What does Gervais believe the Colonel had in his possession when he died?
(a) Proof of Maule’s witchcraft.
(b) The original plans for the house.
(c) The lost deed to the land in Maine.
(d) A letter to future generations.

15. What is on Gervais’ desk during the meeting with Maule?
(a) A picture of his dead wife.
(b) An old surveyor’s map.
(c) The original plans for the house.
(d) A family history of the Maules.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat does the Judge make?

2. In Chapter 13, the action flashes back to a story about whom?

3. What does Clifford say when he and Hepzibah try to go to church?

4. In what way does Maule hope that Alice can help him?

5. What sneaky thing does Maule do?

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