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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Benny hoping for from her parents?
(a) a ring and a locket
(b) a set of Nancy Drew books
(c) a pony and cart
(d) a velvet dress and pretty shoes

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

3. Trying on the dress Clodagh makes for her, what does Eve say when Benny says she looks like the prow of a ship?
(a) prows are made of wood
(b) boys like prows
(c) Nan doesn't have a prow like that
(d) she wishes she had a prow

4. Why does Eve say Mrs. Healy doesn't like them now?
(a) because they shoplift
(b) because they never buy anything
(c) because they talk too much
(d) because they are grown up

5. What does Eve suggest Benny tell Mrs. Healy about why they are in the hotel?
(a) that she is taking a survey
(b) that she is looking for a gift
(c) that she is waiting for her mother
(d) that she is looking for school things

6. Trying to hide her resentment of having to come home each night from university, how does Annabell interpret Benny's responses?
(a) she thinks Benny wants to get married
(b) she thinks Benny is overly excited
(c) she thinks Benny is just nervous
(d) she thinks Benny wants to stay home

7. Who is the man who enters the hotel and keeps looking at Nan?
(a) John Foley
(b) Sean Walsh
(c) Simon Westward
(d) Rooney

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

9. As Benny and Eve leave the hotel, who is watching them from Hogan's, across the street?
(a) Benny's father
(b) Simon
(c) Sean Walsh
(d) Mother Francis

10. Benny and Eve are going to Dublin to study, but where is Eve going instead of the university?
(a) a convent to work for the Mother Superior
(b) a convent to teach small children
(c) a convent to study to be a secretary
(d) a convent to become a nun

11. Who calls for permission to come visit Mother Francis?
(a) Peggy Pine
(b) Kit Hegarty
(c) Simon Westward
(d) Annabel Hogan

12. Why does Kit Hegarty think Frank will be all right at the university?
(a) because he never takes chances
(b) because he is familiar with Dublin
(c) because he won't have time to ride his motorbike
(d) because she has a brother in dublin

13. Why is Annabel sure that Benny will bring home new friends from Dublin?
(a) because it is a habit of Benny's that won't change
(b) because she is ordered to do so
(c) because she cannot stay with people they don't know
(d) because Benny will need someone to take Eve's place

14. What comment does Aengus make about Benny's dress?
(a) it looks like the prow of a ship
(b) she's popping out of it
(c) it's the best dress at the party
(d) it's definitely her color

15. What does Benny do as she and Jack Foley walk through Knockglen?
(a) she tries to hide her face
(b) she holds his hand
(c) she pretends he is her fiance
(d) she tells him about all the people

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nan not notify her parents?

2. Who is the blonde girl Benny meets at the accident site?

3. What does Benny overhear in the ladies' room?

4. What does Lilly think about Aidan's parents?

5. Why does Benny not attend the funeral for Jack?

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