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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Gervais Pyncheon?
(a) A previous master of the house.
(b) An outcast from the Pyncheon family.
(c) A distant relation of the original Pyncheons.
(d) Clifford’s great uncle.

4. What do Clifford and Hepzibah do after Clifford reappears following his meeting with the Judge?
(a) Sign the house over to Holgrave.
(b) Hurry out of the house.
(c) Go to join the Judge.
(d) Have tea in the garden.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does Holgrave decide to experiment with?
(a) To see if the old seeds from the Colonel’s time will sprout.
(b) To see if he can photograph Alice Pyncheon’s ghost.
(c) To determine the true age of the Colonel’s portrait.
(d) To measure the depth of the well.

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

15. What does Clifford say when he and Hepzibah try to go to church?
(a) “They won’t accept us.”
(b) "I no longer believe.”
(c) “My prayers are worthless.”
(d) “We are ghosts.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holgrave offer to Phoebe?

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

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

4. What eventually drives Alice to her death?

5. Which best describes the Judge’s treatment of Clifford?

(see the answer keys)

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