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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Phoebe go when she leaves the House?
(a) To live with the Judge.
(b) To stay at an inn.
(c) Back home.
(d) Up to Maine.

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

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

5. What does young Matthew Maule do for a living?
(a) He is a carpenter.
(b) He is a gardener.
(c) He owns a shipping company.
(d) He is a lawyer.

6. What happens to Phoebe while Holgrave is reading his story?
(a) She becomes hypnotized.
(b) She falls asleep.
(c) She becomes very agitated.
(d) She becomes suddenly ill.

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

8. What is the Judge doing when Hepzibah finds him after his meeting with Clifford?
(a) Searching through Clifford’s papers.
(b) Sitting motionless in a chair.
(c) Cooking a meal in the kitchen.
(d) Digging a hole in the garden.

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

10. Where do the residents of the House begin to spend more time after Phoebe settles in?
(a) The summer house.
(b) The garden.
(c) The parlor.
(d) The shop.

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

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

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

14. What does Clifford say he wanted back?
(a) His fortune.
(b) His youth.
(c) His happines.
(d) His mind.

15. Which statement best describes the initial relationship between Hepzibah and Clifford?
(a) They quietly distrust each other.
(b) They try to make up for lost time.
(c) They attempt to bond without luck.
(d) They want nothing to do with each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Judge believe Clifford can help him with?

2. What does Hepzibah find when she goes to Clifford’s room after he has spoken with the Judge?

3. Why does the Judge come to the house after Phoebe has left?

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

5. Which best describes Phoebe’s last conversation with Holgrave?

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