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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 Phoebe name the rooster?
(a) D'artagnan.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Chanticleer.
(d) Hercules.

2. What does Holgrave reveal about himself to Phoebe?
(a) That he is going on a trip to Europe.
(b) That he is Hepzibah’s long-lost son.
(c) That he had the powers of hypnotism.
(d) That he knows where the deed is hidden.

3. What does Holgrave predict that people will stop doing?
(a) Riding horses.
(b) Building houses.
(c) Working for a living.
(d) Painting portraits.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hepzibah mourn the loss of?

2. Holgrave tells Phoebe which story?

3. With her new free time, Phoebe is spending more time with whom?

4. What does Holgrave consider oppressive?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How was young Matthew Maule already connected to the story of the House?

2. What happened to Phoebe while Holgrave had been reading, and how did Holgrave account for it?

3. What did Phoebe do and what was the impact on the mood of the House?

4. How is Phoebe changing, and why?

5. What did Maule do to Alice?

6. How is Clifford's homecoming both bitter and sweet?

7. What happens to cause Phoebe to have more leisure time, and how does she spend it?

8. Describe Holgrave's attitudes towards society and tradition.

9. How did Gervais believe that Maule could help him?

10. What childish impulse does Clifford give in to and who witnesses it?

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