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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve tell Danny about their mother's reason for leaving?
(a) She hated the Dutch House.
(b) She was sick of their father's attitudes towards money.
(c) She had met someone else and wanted to run away with him.
(d) She thought their father worked way too much and that it was hurting their family.

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

3. Who came to tell Danny and Maeve their father wanted them to meet Andrea the first time she came to the house in Chapter 1?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Jocelyn.
(c) Fluffy.
(d) Elna.

4. What does Andrea tell Maeve when she offers to take the reins of her father's business after he dies?
(a) The business will be sold.
(b) Their father would not have wanted them involved in the business.
(c) The business will go on with the other people who work there just fine.
(d) It will not be necessary.

5. In Chapter 6, what do the doctors tell Maeve and Danny is the probably cause of their father's death?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Gunshot wound.

6. Why is it difficult for Cyril Conroy to go up and down stairs in Chapter 4?
(a) He has a bad back.
(b) He has broken his ankle.
(c) He has a bad knee.
(d) He uses crutches.

7. Who comes to visit Maeve and Danny at Maeve's apartment in Chapter 7?
(a) Norma.
(b) Fluffy.
(c) Sandy and Jocelyn.
(d) Andrea.

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

9. What did the Van Hoebeeks make their fortune in?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Cars.
(c) Coal.
(d) Railroads.

10. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father tell him about asking people who they are voting for?
(a) Never to ask, because it violates a person's privacy.
(b) Always to ask, because the answer reveals a person's character.
(c) Only to ask if Danny thought he would like the answer.
(d) Only to ask if he thought they would be voting for who Danny's father was voting for.

11. In Chapter 5, what kind of restaurant does Danny's father take him and Maeve to?
(a) A Mexican restaurant.
(b) An Ethiopian restaurant.
(c) A sushi restaurant.
(d) An Italian restaurant.

12. What does Maeve's father tell her after she becomes very ill with diabetes?
(a) She will have only the best doctors see her at the house.
(b) If she can get better herself, her mother will return.
(c) She has to stop this.
(d) She may need to live at the hospital instead of at home.

13. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father tell him when Danny asks why his mother left?
(a) She was a lesbian.
(b) She had a free spirit.
(c) She was crazy.
(d) She never should have had children.

14. Who is the nanny Maeve tells Danny later in adulthood that their father was sleeping with?
(a) Fluffy.
(b) Sandy.
(c) Elna.
(d) Jocelyn.

15. Who was Danny's father most comfortable with, in Danny's opinion in Chapter 2?
(a) The other gamblers.
(b) His family.
(c) The people in his office.
(d) His tenants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, where does Danny's father take Danny that surprises him?

3. In Chapter 5, what does Danny tell Andrea and the rest of the family about what he did in New York City with Maeve?

4. In Chapter 6, what does Andrea order because she thinks there will not be enough for Cyril's funeral?

5. In Chapter 6, what does Danny remember his father saying about Andrea marrying a Catholic if she hated Catholics so much?

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