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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hepzibah decide about her surprise guest at the beginning of the novel?
(a) This person is not being honest with her.
(b) This person is really a ghost.
(c) This person can help her financially.
(d) This person can only stay one night.

2. What does Phoebe hear coming from the empty parts of the House?
(a) The scraping of moving furniture.
(b) The growling of an animal.
(c) The sound of mournful weeping.
(d) The sounds of voices and music.

3. What does Phoebe tell Holgrave after he reads her his story?
(a) She is not who she says she is.
(b) She is going to talk to the Judge.
(c) She is to return home for a while.
(d) She is secretly in love with him.

4. How is young Maule related to old Matthew Maule?
(a) He is his son.
(b) He is his grandson.
(c) He is his cousin.
(d) He is his nephew.

5. Whose portrait hangs on the wall in the parlor of the House?
(a) Judge Pyncheon.
(b) Clifford Pyncheon.
(c) Alice Pyncheon.
(d) Colonel Pyncheon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clifford act when he appears again after his meeting with the Judge?

2. What does Hepzibah do while Clifford talks to the Judge?

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

4. What does Clifford disapprove of after visiting the arched windows?

5. What does Holgrave try to do at the beginning of the novel?

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