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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 does Holgrave suggest Phoebe do the first time he meets her?
(a) Take over tending the garden.
(b) Leave the house immediately.
(c) Research the history of the house.
(d) Have her portrait taken.

2. Why were the Maules considered outcasts?
(a) They spent too much time with the natives.
(b) They lived outside of town.
(c) They were habitual criminals.
(d) They were rumored to practice witchcraft.

3. Who does the Judge first mistake Phoebe for?
(a) A shop assistant.
(b) A customer.
(c) Hepzibah’s daughter.
(d) Alice’s ghost.

4. What kind of clothes is Clifford wearing when readers first meet him?
(a) Dark and somber.
(b) Colorful and elaborate.
(c) Pale and worn out.
(d) Sharp and stylish.

5. Who built the House of Seven Gables?
(a) Hawthorne's grandfather.
(b) Judge Pyncheon.
(c) Ned Higgins.
(d) Matthew Maule’s son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clifford eventually do his first evening at the House?

2. How does Hepzibah feel towards the Judge at the beginning of the book?

3. What is unusual about the harpsichord at the House?

4. How is the story of the land dispute known?

5. What is the legend about the well?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Phoebe's first visit to the garden.

2. Describe Holgrave and Uncle Venner.

3. Who built the House of the Seven Gables? Why is this ironic?

4. Describe Phoebe's first encounter with the Judge.

5. After the Colonel's death, what happened to the Pyncheon family?

6. What does the Judge try to do?

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

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

9. Describe how Phoebe comes to stay at the House.

10. What were the Maules like as a family?

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