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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Gervais Pyncheon related to Colonel Pyncheon?
(a) He is his cousin.
(b) He is his nephew.
(c) He is his grandson.
(d) He is his son.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Holgrave value?
(a) The stability and traditions of the past.
(b) The work ethic of the common man.
(c) What is new and fleeting in the world.
(d) The opinions and attitudes of high society.

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

10. What does Hepzibah find when she goes to Clifford’s room after he has spoken with the Judge?
(a) Clifford is asleep.
(b) Clifford has fallen ill.
(c) Clifford is gone.
(d) Clifford is very nervous.

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

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

13. Which best describes Phoebe’s last conversation with Holgrave?
(a) Holgrave tells her to leave and not come back.
(b) They makes plans for the future.
(c) They have an argument.
(d) She leaves instructions for caring for Hepzibah and Clifford.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement best describes the relationship between Maule and Alice?

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

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

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

5. Before helping Gervais, what does Maule insist on?

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