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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ned Higgins want to buy?
(a) Cookies.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) Flour.
(d) A pound of meat.

2. How is the story of the land dispute known?
(a) By town records.
(b) By word of mouth.
(c) By local newspapers.
(d) By Pyncheon’s autobiography.

3. Who passes by the shop but does not enter at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Matthew Maule.
(b) Clifford Pyncheon.
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(d) The Judge.

4. Who is Uncle Venner?
(a) Hepzibah’s uncle.
(b) A kindly neighbor.
(c) Holgrave’s employer.
(d) The Pyncheon’s lawyer.

5. What story does the Judge tell Phoebe?
(a) The story of the House.
(b) The story of how he became a Judge.
(c) The story of his uncle’s murder.
(d) The story of Matthew Maule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hepzibah do after she opens the shop for the day at the beginning of the novel?

2. What is Hepzibah waiting for at the beginning of the novel?

3. Which of the following best describes the Maules?

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

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

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