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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. Which best describes Phoebe’s last conversation with Holgrave?
(a) They makes plans for the future.
(b) They have an argument.
(c) She leaves instructions for caring for Hepzibah and Clifford.
(d) Holgrave tells her to leave and not come back.

2. Which statement best describes the initial relationship between Hepzibah and Clifford?
(a) They try to make up for lost time.
(b) They attempt to bond without luck.
(c) They quietly distrust each other.
(d) They want nothing to do with each other.

3. How does Holgrave view Phoebe’s influence on Clifford and Hepzibah?
(a) She has taught them to love again.
(b) She has brought them back to life.
(c) She is prolonging their despair.
(d) She tortures them with a youth that is lost to them.

4. What does Gervais believe the Colonel had in his possession when he died?
(a) The original plans for the house.
(b) A letter to future generations.
(c) The lost deed to the land in Maine.
(d) Proof of Maule’s witchcraft.

5. What does Holgrave value?
(a) What is new and fleeting in the world.
(b) The work ethic of the common man.
(c) The stability and traditions of the past.
(d) The opinions and attitudes of high society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does young Matthew Maule do for a living?

2. Who is Gervais Pyncheon?

3. In Chapter 13, the action flashes back to a story about whom?

4. What does Gervais believe the builder must have known?

5. How does the atmosphere of the House influence Phoebe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the atmosphere of the House influence Phoebe?

2. What does Holgrave experiment with?

3. What does Holgrave offer to read to Phoebe?

4. How do Clifford and Hepzibah get along once Clifford is home?

5. What did Maule do to Alice?

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

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

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

9. In Holgrave's narrative, what was Gervais Pyncheon trying the find?

10. How is Phoebe changing, and why?

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