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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eve say any boy who loves her will have to endure?
(a) her anxiety
(b) her poverty
(c) her curisoity
(d) her hostility

2. What does Nan bring to Eve in the hospital?
(a) a bunch of violets
(b) a university catalog
(c) a novel to read
(d) a few recent magazines

3. Why does Benny diet before her date with Jack Foley?
(a) she wants to fit into one of Nan's dresses
(b) she wants to be able to eat heartily
(c) she wants to be small like Eve and pretty like Nan
(d) she is too nervous to eat

4. Why can't Benny accept Eve's invitation to stay overnight with her?
(a) Eve must first go to Knockglen and ask her parents
(b) Eve lives in a house with boys and a woman her parents don't know
(c) Benny's mother is ill and she must go home and help Patsy
(d) Benny has been grounded for staying out too late with Jack

5. Why is Nan happy about the location for the dance?
(a) it is in the hotel where her mother works
(b) it is a good setting for her new dress
(c) it is off limits to Brian
(d) it is where she can meet rich men

6. As a big dance approaches, what are Bill and Jack discussing?
(a) how to get out of going
(b) which girls to invite to the dance
(c) where they can get a car
(d) what to wear to the dance

7. What is in a letter for Benny that she does not want Nan and Eve to know about?
(a) a thank you from Jack for the meal in Knockglen
(b) an anonymous note saying Jack is in love with her
(c) an invitation to a lunch date signed, love Jack
(d) a request to arrange a meeting with Nan

8. Who does Mother Francis believe gives her the answer to her prayer for dealing with Mother Clare?
(a) Eve
(b) Patsy
(c) Kit
(d) Peggy

9. What makes Aidan Lynch hope that the wrecked motorbike does not belong to Frank?
(a) because Frank is his cousin
(b) because he was going to buy it from Frank
(c) because he had heard Frank was in town
(d) because they once worked together

10. What is Dun Lagohaire?
(a) a school near Knockglen
(b) an estate outside Knockglen
(c) a harbor miles from Dublin
(d) a shop in Knockglen

11. What does Jack say that surprises Benny when he invites her to lunch the day after the dance?
(a) he has her modesty vest
(b) he wants her to get to know his mother
(c) it will just be the two of them
(d) he got her number from Rosemary

12. Why does Mother Francis tell Kit about Eve's history?
(a) to have something to talk about
(b) to make her feel ashamed
(c) to get her mind off Jack
(d) to show her bad things happen to good people

13. Why did Eve's family not take her in after her parents died?
(a) because they are greedy
(b) because Eve was illegitimate
(c) because Eve is Protestant
(d) because they are Protestants

14. What reason does Jack give his mother for inviting so many girls to their sherry party?
(a) he wants to see how they interact with each other
(b) he couldn't decide which one to ask, so he asked all of them
(c) he wants plenty of girls there for his male friends
(d) he wanted to make the other boys jealous

15. What makes Benny think she still has a chance for a date to the dance?
(a) Jack only asked Rosemary an hour ago
(b) Rosemary says Aidan has no date
(c) Rosemary is coming down with a cold
(d) she hears boys talking about not having dates

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls for permission to come visit Mother Francis?

2. What do Patsy and Annabel do for Jack's visit?

3. Instead of the blue velvet dress, what does Benny receive?

4. What do Eve and Simon argue about?

5. Why is Benny nervous at the dance?

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