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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What animals were infesting the Dutch House when Danny's family moved in?
2. In Chapter 6, where is Cyril Conroy when he falls ill?
3. In Chapter 6, what does Andrea think has happened when she finds Maeve, Danny, Sandy and Jocelyn in the kitchen after their father's death?
4. How old is Andrea when she marries Cyril Conroy?
5. In Chapter 4, how does Andrea rearrange the bedrooms at Dutch House?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 7, what do Danny and Maeve find out is the one way in which their father sought to provide for them after his death?
2. In Chapter 7, what does Maeve tell Danny about her feelings towards Andrea and her children?
3. In Chapter 2, how does Danny say he feels about his mother?
4. In Chapter 3, what does Andrea do one day that greatly surprises Danny and Maeve?
5. In Chapter 6, how do Sandy and Jocelyn react to Andrea's instructions for Danny and Maeve to leave the house and never come back?
6. In Chapter 2, what does Danny's father do for a family with a very sick child that Maeve is surprised to hear about?
7. Why is the Dutch House called the Dutch House?
8. In Chapter 1, what do Danny and Maeve think about the fact that their father wants them to meet a friend at the house on a Saturday?
9. When Cyril Conroy bought the Dutch House, what kind of a state was it in?
10. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve say when Danny tells her their father took him to see where their mother used to live?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What kinds of character traits, attributes, and attitudes do you think Patchett conveys through her descriptions of Maeve's hair, height, and clothes? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
At different points all throughout the novel, Danny wonders to himself and aloud to Maeve how accurate their memories and recollections of the past are. Write an essay analyzing Patchett's treatment of the theme of memory, and on how reliable any one individual's memory of the past is in this novel.
Essay Topic 3
The Dutch House symbolizes radically different things for different characters. From the first time she sees the house, Andrea is enthralled with it, but her fixation on the house seems to run very deep. Write an essay analyzing the range of Andrea's feelings towards the Dutch House.
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