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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was odd about the kitchen in the Dutch House in Danny's opinion?
(a) It had a copper ceiling.
(b) It was small compared to the rest of the house.
(c) It was tiled in diamonds.
(d) It was dirty in a way that meant it could not be easily cleaned.

2. In Chapter 4, how does Andrea rearrange the bedrooms at Dutch House?
(a) She takes Norma's bedroom and gives it to Danny.
(b) She takes Maeve's bedroom for herself and Cyril.
(c) She takes Bright's bedroom and gives it to Norma.
(d) She takes Maeve's bedroom and gives it to Norma.

3. Why is Maeve's portrait hanging in the Dutch House instead of her mother's?
(a) The family could not afford to pay for more than one portrait.
(b) The painter the family hired wanted to paint Maeve for free.
(c) Her mother refused to sit for a portrait.
(d) Maeve begged to have her portrait painted as a child.

4. What does Andrea propose about Danny's and his father's trip in Chapter 5?
(a) She threatens to divorce Cyril if he goes without her.
(b) She does not want them to go.
(c) She wants to go along with them and to bring her daughters, too.
(d) She has arranged for them all to take another holiday skiing up north at the same time.

5. What does the lawyer Maeve consults tell her her father told him when he advised against going along with Andrea's wishes?
(a) That Andrea was never after his money, only his heart.
(b) That Andrea was his one true love and he trusted her completely.
(c) That Andrea would never betray him.
(d) That Andrea would look after Maeve and Danny because she was a good mother.

6. What boarding school does Danny attend for high school?
(a) Exeter.
(b) Choate.
(c) Taft.
(d) Oxford.

7. For what holiday does Danny visit Maeve in Chapter 5?
(a) The Fourth of July.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Easter.
(d) Thanksgiving.

8. In Chapter 5, where does Danny's father take Danny that surprises him?
(a) Into Philadelphia, to a museum.
(b) Into Harlem.
(c) Into Brooklyn, where Danny's father used to live.
(d) Into the Bronx zoo, even though Danny's father hates zoos.

9. Who performed the wedding ceremony for Andrea and Cyril Conroy?
(a) A judge no one in the family knew.
(b) A priest and a rabbi.
(c) A rabbi.
(d) A priest.

10. In Chapter 5, what kind of pastry does Danny's father say he loved in his old neighborhood in New York?
(a) Eclairs.
(b) Cake.
(c) Croissants.
(d) Crullers.

11. What is one thing that Danny wishes he and Maeve had taken from the Dutch House the day they left in Chapter 6?
(a) Their father's cuff links.
(b) Their father's journals.
(c) Their stash of money.
(d) Their mother's glass butter dish.

12. In Chapter 6, where is Cyril Conroy when he falls ill?
(a) At the grocery store.
(b) At home.
(c) On an airplane.
(d) Climbing stairs at one of the buildings he owns.

13. In Chapter 6, where does Maeve go to work after her graduation from college?
(a) Bertie's Pastries.
(b) Jansen's Sausages.
(c) Otterson's Frozen Vegetables.
(d) Swanson's Meats.

14. In Chapter 5, what does Danny say he and Maeve pretended about the Dutch House?
(a) That they wished ill on Andrea and her daughters, which only made them feel worse.
(b) That what they had lost was the house itself rather than their family - their mother and their father.
(c) That they still loved the house, when neither of them did.
(d) That they wished the house would burn to the ground, which they really did not wish.

15. In Chapter 2, who is the person in Danny's life that is closest to a mother figure?
(a) Fluffy.
(b) Jocelyn.
(c) Maeve.
(d) Andrea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maeve want Danny to go to medical school so badly?

2. What year was the construction on the Dutch House finished in?

3. What does Maeve tell Andrea in Chapter 6 when Andrea's plans for the future become clear?

4. Where did the adults in their lives tell Maeve and Danny their mother went when she left the family?

5. In Chapter 2, where does Danny go with his father every Saturday?

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