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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Phoebe’s presence influence Clifford?
(a) She makes him suspicious.
(b) She relieves his depression.
(c) She deepens his sadness.
(d) She makes him feel young again.

3. What does the Judge believe Clifford can help him with?
(a) Supporting his political campaign.
(b) Recovering the missing deed.
(c) Obtaining information about Holgrave.
(d) Talking Hepzibah into moving out.

4. Which statement best describes the relationship between Maule and Alice?
(a) Maule has her under his complete control.
(b) They live happily together until they die.
(c) They conspire to steal the Pyncheons’ fortune.
(d) Alice loves Maule from afar.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What threat does the Judge make?
(a) He could force her to close down her shop.
(b) He could withhold any more financial help.
(c) He could send Clifford back to prison.
(d) He could take possession of the house.

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

13. 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 he can photograph Alice Pyncheon’s ghost.
(d) To see if the old seeds from the Colonel’s time will sprout.

14. Why does Clifford want to hold the roses?
(a) So he can confirm their reality.
(b) So he can feel the thorns.
(c) So he can smell the blossom.
(d) So he can offer them to Phoebe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement best describes the initial relationship between Hepzibah and Clifford?

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

3. What does Holgrave predict that people will stop doing?

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

5. Where does Phoebe start taking Clifford?

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