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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. What does Clifford disapprove of after visiting the arched windows?
(a) The unhappiness of the common people.
(b) The hypocrisy of the Judge.
(c) The way the world has changed.
(d) The time Phoebe spends with Holgrave.

2. What does young Matthew Maule do for a living?
(a) He owns a shipping company.
(b) He is a lawyer.
(c) He is a carpenter.
(d) He is a gardener.

3. What does Holgrave decide to experiment with?
(a) To see if he can photograph Alice Pyncheon’s ghost.
(b) To see if the old seeds from the Colonel’s time will sprout.
(c) To measure the depth of the well.
(d) To determine the true age of the Colonel’s portrait.

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

5. What role does Phoebe take at the House?
(a) She becomes the mediator between Hepzibah and Clifford.
(b) She becomes a tour guide for guests to the house.
(c) She becomes increasingly reclusive and hides in the attic.
(d) She becomes a caretaker to Hepzibah and Clifford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best describes the Judge’s treatment of Clifford?

2. What happens to Phoebe while Holgrave is reading his story?

3. What does Hepzibah find when she goes to Clifford’s room after he has spoken with the Judge?

4. What is Holgrave writing?

5. Where do the chickens spend much of their time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Phoebe while Holgrave had been reading, and how did Holgrave account for it?

2. How does the author build suspense as Hepzibah waits while the Judge meets with Clifford?

3. What did Maule do to Alice?

4. How did Gervais believe that Maule could help him?

5. How is Phoebe changing, and why?

6. Describe Holgrave's attitudes towards society and tradition.

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

8. How was young Matthew Maule already connected to the story of the House?

9. What does the Judge want from Clifford?

10. What did Phoebe do and what was the impact on the mood of the House?

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