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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clifford regularly ask about?
(a) Which flowers are in bloom.
(b) Why Hepzibah disliks the Judge.
(c) How the shop is doing.
(d) What has happened while he was away.

2. What did Maule’s father do?
(a) He sued the Pyncheon’s for return of their land.
(b) He built the house.
(c) He cursed the Pyncheon family.
(d) He managed the Pyncheon’s finances.

3. What does the Judge reveal to Hepzibah during his visit following Phoebe's departure?
(a) He is really a Maule.
(b) He had arranged Clifford’s release from prison.
(c) He has secretly gone bankrupt.
(d) He is terminally ill.

4. What does Clifford claim he saw in the well?
(a) A ghostly image of the life he lost.
(b) His own face turned twisted and evil.
(c) A sealed box under the water.
(d) A dark face staring back.

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

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

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

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

9. How is young Maule related to old Matthew Maule?
(a) He is his grandson.
(b) He is his cousin.
(c) He is his son.
(d) He is his nephew.

10. What do Uncle Venner and Holgrave work on together?
(a) Renovating the summer house.
(b) Reshingling the roof.
(c) Laying down a new walkway.
(d) Repairing the well.

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

12. 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.

13. How does Maule defy tradition when he comes to the House?
(a) He arrives without an invitation.
(b) He insists on entering through the front door.
(c) He asks to be fed while he is there.
(d) He kisses Mrs. Pyncheon on the cheek.

14. With her new free time, Phoebe is spending more time with whom?
(a) Uncle Venner.
(b) Ned Higgins.
(c) Holgrave.
(d) The Judge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phoebe do that cheers Clifford the most?

2. How does Hepzibah try to cheer Clifford up?

3. What does young Matthew Maule do for a living?

4. What does Phoebe tell Holgrave after he reads her his story?

5. What is Holgrave writing?

(see the answer keys)

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