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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve tell Danny about their mother's reason for leaving?
(a) She hated the Dutch House.
(b) She had met someone else and wanted to run away with him.
(c) She thought their father worked way too much and that it was hurting their family.
(d) She was sick of their father's attitudes towards money.

2. 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.

3. Where does Maeve try to make Danny go with her soon after Danny is kicked out of the Dutch House?
(a) Work.
(b) Volunteering at charities.
(c) College.
(d) Church.

4. In Chapter 5, what does Danny say he and Maeve pretended about the Dutch House?
(a) That they still loved the house, when neither of them did.
(b) That they wished ill on Andrea and her daughters, which only made them feel worse.
(c) That they wished the house would burn to the ground, which they really did not wish.
(d) That what they had lost was the house itself rather than their family - their mother and their father.

5. What does Andrea propose about Danny's and his father's trip in Chapter 5?
(a) She wants to go along with them and to bring her daughters, too.
(b) She has arranged for them all to take another holiday skiing up north at the same time.
(c) She threatens to divorce Cyril if he goes without her.
(d) She does not want them to go.

6. What animals were infesting the Dutch House when Danny's family moved in?
(a) Rats.
(b) Raccoons.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Deer.

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

8. What does the lawyer Maeve consults tell her her father told him when he advised against going along with Andrea's wishes?
(a) That Andrea was never after his money, only his heart.
(b) That Andrea would look after Maeve and Danny because she was a good mother.
(c) That Andrea would never betray him.
(d) That Andrea was his one true love and he trusted her completely.

9. Which neighbor do Maeve and Danny see when they park at the Dutch House in Chapter 5?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Mrs. Buchsbaum.
(c) Jocelyn.
(d) Mr. Norcross.

10. Who presides at Cyril Conroy's funeral?
(a) Father Minty.
(b) Father Brewer.
(c) Father McCarthy.
(d) Father Taffera.

11. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father tell him about asking people who they are voting for?
(a) Never to ask, because it violates a person's privacy.
(b) Always to ask, because the answer reveals a person's character.
(c) Only to ask if he thought they would be voting for who Danny's father was voting for.
(d) Only to ask if Danny thought he would like the answer.

12. What is one thing that Danny wishes he and Maeve had taken from the Dutch House the day they left in Chapter 6?
(a) Their stash of money.
(b) Their mother's glass butter dish.
(c) Their father's journals.
(d) Their father's cuff links.

13. In Chapter 6, where does Maeve go to work after her graduation from college?
(a) Jansen's Sausages.
(b) Otterson's Frozen Vegetables.
(c) Swanson's Meats.
(d) Bertie's Pastries.

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

15. In Chapter 6, where does Danny feel most at home?
(a) At the charity where he volunteers.
(b) In the Dutch House.
(c) At medical school.
(d) On a building site.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of Andrea's daughters?

2. In Chapter 5, where does Danny's father take Danny that surprises him?

3. Why is it difficult for Cyril Conroy to go up and down stairs in Chapter 4?

4. Why does Maeve want Danny to go to medical school so badly?

5. In Chapter 5, why is Maeve so amazed that her father showed Danny where their mother used to live?

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