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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 5 - 7).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Cyril Conroy not have a will?
(a) At age 53, he did not think he was old enough to have a will.
(b) He thought wills were unnecessary.
(c) He thought Andrea would look after everything for him.
(d) Andrea's lawyer advised Cyril not to have his own will.

2. What Broadway show does Andrea want to see with her daughters in Chapter 5?
(a) The Sound of Music.
(b) West Side Story.
(c) The Music Man.
(d) Fiddler on the Roof.

3. In Chapter 5, why is Danny excited about his father taking him to visit Maeve at college?
(a) It will be just the three of them for the first time in a long time.
(b) He needs to ask his father an important question.
(c) He wants his father and Maeve to make amends between them.
(d) He has never ridden in a car alone with his father.

4. Who cries at the end of Chapter 4 when Andrea's bedroom rearrangements are revealed to Maeve?
(a) Norma.
(b) Maeve.
(c) Bright.
(d) Danny.

5. In Chapter 5, what did Danny's father tell Maeve when she told him she wanted to try to find her mother?
(a) She should think of her mother as dead.
(b) Andrea would not allow Maeve to go to try to find her mother.
(c) If she went to try to find her, she was not allowed back in the house.
(d) She should go and try to find her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does Andrea do one Saturday that shocks Danny and Maeve?

2. Who was the family that originally built the Dutch House?

3. In Chapter 7, who does Maeve turn to for legal advice about the situation with Andrea?

4. Why is Maeve's portrait hanging in the Dutch House instead of her mother's?

5. What does Andrea propose about Danny's and his father's trip in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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