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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hepzibah do while Clifford talks to the Judge?
(a) She sweeps the floor in the shop.
(b) She writes a letter to Phoebe.
(c) She talks with Holgrave.
(d) She sits and watches the street.

2. What does Clifford regularly ask about?
(a) Why Hepzibah disliks the Judge.
(b) What has happened while he was away.
(c) Which flowers are in bloom.
(d) How the shop is doing.

3. Where does Phoebe start taking Clifford?
(a) To the secret passage.
(b) To the arched window.
(c) To the town square.
(d) To the waterfront.

4. Who is Gervais Pyncheon?
(a) A previous master of the house.
(b) A distant relation of the original Pyncheons.
(c) An outcast from the Pyncheon family.
(d) Clifford’s great uncle.

5. Where do the chickens spend much of their time?
(a) Following Phoebe.
(b) Around Maule’s well.
(c) Nesting in the summer house.
(d) Pecking at Clifford’s feet.

6. What happens to Phoebe while Holgrave is reading his story?
(a) She becomes hypnotized.
(b) She becomes very agitated.
(c) She falls asleep.
(d) She becomes suddenly ill.

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

8. What threat does the Judge make?
(a) He could force her to close down her shop.
(b) He could take possession of the house.
(c) He could withhold any more financial help.
(d) He could send Clifford back to prison.

9. Before helping Gervais, what does Maule insist on?
(a) Gervais signing over the house.
(b) Meeting with Alice Pyncheon.
(c) That everyone in the house leave.
(d) A letter exonerating his ancestors.

10. What sneaky thing does Maule do?
(a) He attacks Gervais.
(b) He poisons the well.
(c) He hypnotizes Alice.
(d) He removes the floorboards.

11. What development gives Phoebe more free time?
(a) Holgrave’s increased help.
(b) The closure of the shop.
(c) Clifford’s emotional recovery.
(d) The death of Uncle Venner.

12. What does Maule tell Gervais?
(a) The deed has been destroyed.
(b) His grandfather is really guilty.
(c) The house is haunted.
(d) That Pyncheon could keep his house.

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

14. What does Gervais believe the builder must have known?
(a) The truth about old Matthew Maule.
(b) The existence of a secret passage in the house.
(c) The secret at the bottom of the well.
(d) The location of the lost deed.

15. How does Clifford act when he appears again after his meeting with the Judge?
(a) Excited and energized.
(b) Angry and resentful.
(c) Frightened and shaking.
(d) Old and weak.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which statement best describes the relationship between Maule and Alice?

3. What does Clifford enjoy watching from the arched windows?

4. What role does Phoebe take at the House?

5. What does the Judge reveal to Hepzibah during his visit following Phoebe's departure?

(see the answer keys)

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