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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. In Chapter 2, what does Danny's father do upon finding a tenant with a very sick child?
(a) Picks up the child and drives them to the hospital himself.
(b) Calls a doctor and leaves immediately.
(c) He does nothing, but only leaves them to their own devices.
(d) Tells the family they are evicted that very day.

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

3. 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) She has to stop this.
(c) She may need to live at the hospital instead of at home.
(d) If she can get better herself, her mother will return.

4. What does Jocelyn tell Andrea in Chapter 6 when Andrea fires her and Sandy?
(a) That Andrea's daughters would never forgive her.
(b) That Cyril's ghost would come back to haunt her.
(c) That she and Sandy could never figure out what Mr. Conroy had been thinking in marrying Andrea.
(d) That the community would hate Andrea for this.

5. What happens to Maeve right after her and Danny's mother leaves for good?
(a) She joins the army.
(b) She develops diabetes.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She attempts suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was odd about the kitchen in the Dutch House in Danny's opinion?

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

3. Where did the adults in their lives tell Maeve and Danny their mother went when she left the family?

4. In Chapter 5, where does Maeve spend part of Christmas?

5. Why did Cyril Conroy not have a will?

(see the answer key)

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