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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hepzibah waiting for at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The flowers in the garden to bloom.
(b) The arrival of someone very important to her.
(c) A delivery that was three days late.
(d) Someone to make an offer to buy the House.

2. At the story’s opening, how many members of the Pyncheon family are left living?
(a) 1.
(b) 300.
(c) 4.
(d) 37.

3. What did the Pyncheons lose that cost them a vast fortune?
(a) The deed to a valuable property.
(b) The House of Seven Gables.
(c) A fleet of fishing boats.
(d) A safe full of money.

4. What recent addition has been made to the House?
(a) The shop window.
(b) A guest house.
(c) The seventh gable.
(d) A new garden.

5. What does Holgrave try to do at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Buy the house from Hepzibah.
(b) Talk Hepzibah into closing the shop.
(c) Cheer Hepzibah up.
(d) Steal a valuable painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phoebe take charge of upon arriving at the House?

2. Whom does the Judge remind Phoebe of?

3. How does Clifford react to Hepzibah’s welcome?

4. How does Hepzibah feel after her first day running the shop?

5. What initial impression does Phoebe have of the Judge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Judge try to do?

2. Describe the Puritan-era legal battle over the land the house sits on.

3. What tragedies soon afflicted the Pyncheon family?

4. How would you describe the House of Seven Gables?

5. What were the Maules like as a family?

6. Explain who Clifford is and describe his homecoming.

7. Describe some of the "eerie" qualities of the House.

8. Who is Phoebe and how does Hepzibah react to her arrival?

9. Describe Holgrave and Uncle Venner.

10. Who is Hepzibah Pyncheon and why does she run a shop out of the house?

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