Question

While on a train, one character in this novel annoys a passenger by constantly mentioning a dead man with a “blood-stain on his shirt-bosom.” This novel ends as an old man faintly hears the harpsichord of a long-dead girl who threw posy seeds on her roof. Before being executed, a man in this novel looks at his enemy and shouts, “God will give him blood to drink!” Near the end of this novel, a long-lost land deed for territory in Maine is discovered behind the (-5[1])(*) portrait of a Colonel. (10[2]-5[1])In this novel, the (10[1])daguerreotypist Holgrave (-5[1])reveals that he is descended from Matthew Maule, (10[1])who was hanged for witchcraft. (10[1])In this novel, the girl Phoebe visits her relatives Clifford and Hepzibah, who live in the title structure. (10[2])For 10 points, the Pyncheon family lives in the title structure of what novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne? (10[2])■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: The House of the Seven Gables
<MM, American Literature>
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