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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, where does Danny's father take Danny that surprises him?
(a) Into Harlem.
(b) Into Philadelphia, to a museum.
(c) Into Brooklyn, where Danny's father used to live.
(d) Into the Bronx zoo, even though Danny's father hates zoos.

3. 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 never betray him.
(c) That Andrea would look after Maeve and Danny because she was a good mother.
(d) That Andrea was his one true love and he trusted her completely.

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

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

6. In Chapter 2, who is the person in Danny's life that is closest to a mother figure?
(a) Andrea.
(b) Maeve.
(c) Fluffy.
(d) Jocelyn.

7. In Chapter 6, where is Cyril Conroy when he falls ill?
(a) At home.
(b) On an airplane.
(c) Climbing stairs at one of the buildings he owns.
(d) At the grocery store.

8. In Chapter 5, what kind of restaurant does Danny's father take him and Maeve to?
(a) A Mexican restaurant.
(b) An Ethiopian restaurant.
(c) A sushi restaurant.
(d) An Italian restaurant.

9. In Chapter 6, who calls Maeve to tell her that her father has died?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Jocelyn.
(c) Mrs. Kennedy.
(d) Andrea.

10. What did Danny's nanny do to hurt him when he was four years old?
(a) Burned his hand.
(b) Slapped his face.
(c) Hit him on the head with a wooden spoon.
(d) Smacked his bottom.

11. In Chapter 4, how does Andrea rearrange the bedrooms at Dutch House?
(a) She takes Bright's bedroom and gives it to Norma.
(b) She takes Maeve's bedroom for herself and Cyril.
(c) She takes Norma's bedroom and gives it to Danny.
(d) She takes Maeve's bedroom and gives it to Norma.

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

13. Why is Maeve's portrait hanging in the Dutch House instead of her mother's?
(a) The family could not afford to pay for more than one portrait.
(b) The painter the family hired wanted to paint Maeve for free.
(c) Maeve begged to have her portrait painted as a child.
(d) Her mother refused to sit for a portrait.

14. What are the names of Andrea's daughters?
(a) Fiona and Siobhan.
(b) Jenny and Sally.
(c) Kathryn and Angeline.
(d) Norma and Bright.

15. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father tell him when Danny asks why his mother left?
(a) She was a lesbian.
(b) She had a free spirit.
(c) She never should have had children.
(d) She was crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what do the doctors tell Maeve and Danny is the probably cause of their father's death?

2. In Chapter 6, what does Andrea tell Maeve and Danny about the Dutch House?

3. In Chapter 2, where does Danny go with his father every Saturday?

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

5. In Chapter 5, what strikes Danny about the place his mother used to live?

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