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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What street is the House of Seven Gables on?
(a) Salem Street.
(b) Hawthorne Boulevard.
(c) Maule Avenue.
(d) Pyncheon Street.

2. Which of the following best describes Phoebe?
(a) Disciplined and religious.
(b) Rustic and pretty.
(c) Fashionable and arrogant.
(d) Mannered and aristocratic.

3. What uncharacteristic thing does Clifford decide to do one day?
(a) Blow soap bubbles out the window.
(b) Write a book about the Pyncheons.
(c) Ask Holgrave to teach him.
(d) Confront the Judge.

4. What does the Judge repeatedly try to prevent Phoebe from doing?
(a) Misjudge him.
(b) Insist he stay for lunch.
(c) Call Hepzibah.
(d) Leave the shop.

5. Why is Holgrave at the house at the beginning of the novel?
(a) He rents a room there.
(b) He is making a delivery.
(c) He wants to buy something.
(d) Hepzibah has hired him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clifford react every time he hears the train engines?

2. What does Ned Higgins want to buy?

3. What does Hepzibah tell Phoebe about Holgrave?

4. What does the Judge want to do when he arrives at the House and is speaking with Phoebe for the first time?

5. What is done to the portrait of the Colonel for Clifford's benefit?

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