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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hepzibah mourn the loss of?
(a) The years Clifford’s incarceration cost them.
(b) Phoebe’s coming departure.
(c) The presence of their uncle.
(d) Her lost youth and beauty.

2. How old is Holgrave?
(a) 18.
(b) 35.
(c) 24.
(d) 22.

3. What does Holgrave consider oppressive?
(a) The mood of the house.
(b) The uncertain future.
(c) The unchanging past.
(d) The expectations of society.

4. Where does Phoebe start taking Clifford?
(a) To the town square.
(b) To the waterfront.
(c) To the secret passage.
(d) To the arched window.

5. What does Maule tell Gervais?
(a) The deed has been destroyed.
(b) The house is haunted.
(c) That Pyncheon could keep his house.
(d) His grandfather is really guilty.

6. What does Holgrave reveal about himself to Phoebe?
(a) That he knows where the deed is hidden.
(b) That he is going on a trip to Europe.
(c) That he is Hepzibah’s long-lost son.
(d) That he had the powers of hypnotism.

7. What statement best describes Hepzibah’s appearance?
(a) She carefully maintains her former attractiveness.
(b) She is a handsome and elegant woman.
(c) She has lost the great beauty of her youth.
(d) Her features are naturally stern and unattractive.

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

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

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

11. Holgrave tells Phoebe which story?
(a) The story of Matthew Maule and Colonel Pyncheon.
(b) The story of his life before he became a daguerreotypist.
(c) The story of Clifford’s conviction for murder.
(d) The story of the Judge’s rise to prominence.

12. What does Phoebe tell Holgrave after he reads her his story?
(a) She is secretly in love with him.
(b) She is not who she says she is.
(c) She is to return home for a while.
(d) She is going to talk to the Judge.

13. What does Phoebe do that cheers Clifford the most?
(a) Reads poetry.
(b) Talks.
(c) Laughs.
(d) Listens to his stories.

14. What is Holgrave writing?
(a) A book about daguerreotypes.
(b) His autobiography.
(c) A history of the Pyncheons.
(d) A novel about the house.

15. What does Gervais believe the builder must have known?
(a) The secret at the bottom of the well.
(b) The location of the lost deed.
(c) The existence of a secret passage in the house.
(d) The truth about old Matthew Maule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Judge reveal to Hepzibah during his visit following Phoebe's departure?

2. How does Phoebe’s presence influence Clifford?

3. What does Clifford begin doing after Phoebe leaves?

4. What is the Judge doing when Hepzibah finds him after his meeting with Clifford?

5. What does Clifford claim he saw in the well?

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