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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare the way the dollhouse swings open?
(a) The way children burst into the house after school.
(b) The way the wind blows open screen doors during a storm.
(c) The way God opens houses at night.
(d) The way mothers barge in on their daughters.

2. What does the main family's guest send for the children after her stay with them?
(a) Golden hairbrushes.
(b) A gift certificate.
(c) A dollhouse.
(d) New dresses.

3. Who believes the smell of the dollhouse is "enough to make anyone one seriously ill" (570)?
(a) Lottie Burnell.
(b) Mrs. Burnell.
(c) Aunt Beryl.
(d) Mrs. Hay.

4. What word is used to describe the green color of the dollhouse?
(a) Cucumber.
(b) Broccoli.
(c) Spinach.
(d) Cabbage.

5. By which room do they keep the new dollhouse when it is first received?
(a) The feed room.
(b) The drawing room.
(c) The living room.
(d) The eldest child's bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do our Else and Lil do while Isabel tells the other girls about the dollhouse?

2. Why are the Burnell sisters unable to tell their friends about the dollhouse when they first arrive to school?

3. What color is our Else's dress?

4. What is the name of the main family in "The Doll's House"?

5. How does Kezia describe the lamp to their friends?

Short Essay Questions

1. What part of the house does Kezia like best? How does she feel about it in relation to other things in the house?

2. Who sends a dollhouse to the Burnell family and why?

3. Why do the Kelveys stay away from Isabel when she is telling her friends about the dollhouse?

4. What does Isabel tell her friends when she gets to school the day after she receives the dollhouse?

5. What does Aunt Beryl feel in regards to the way the dollhouse smells?

6. What does the Kelvey's mother do for work and where is there father?

7. Why are the Burnell children eager to get to school after the gift they received from Mrs. Hays?

8. What are Mrs. Burnell's rules for when their friends come to see the dollhouse?

9. Why are the girls unable to tell their friends about the dollhouse when they get to school the day after they received it?

10. What does Isabel tell her sisters that she and her mother have already decided when they are heading to school before they tell anyone about the dollhouse?

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