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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 what they had lost was the house itself rather than their family - their mother and their father.
(d) That they wished the house would burn to the ground, which they really did not wish.

3. What does Maeve tell Andrea in Chapter 6 when Andrea's plans for the future become clear?
(a) Maeve will find a way to get back at her.
(b) Andrea will never met another man to marry.
(c) Andrea's daughters will hate her.
(d) Danny will find a way to get revenge on Andrea.

4. 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 threatens to divorce Cyril if he goes without her.
(c) She does not want them to go.
(d) She has arranged for them all to take another holiday skiing up north at the same time.

5. In Chapter 5, how does Maeve wear her hair that Sandy has told her she prefers?
(a) In a bun.
(b) Short, with bangs.
(c) In a single heavy braid.
(d) Loose, under a hat.

6. In Chapter 2, what is Danny's mother's behavior leading up to her leaving the family?
(a) She yells at the workers in the house often.
(b) She is absent for longer and longer periods.
(c) She stays in bed all the time.
(d) She takes more and more education.

7. What boarding school does Danny attend for high school?
(a) Choate.
(b) Taft.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Exeter.

8. What year was the construction on the Dutch House finished in?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1924.

9. In Chapter 3, what does Maeve tell her father is not hers and Danny's responsibility?
(a) To keep their grades up.
(b) To pay the housekeeping staff.
(c) To keep the books for the business.
(d) To take care of Andrea's daughters.

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

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

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

13. How are Sandy and Jocelyn related?
(a) They are mother and daughter.
(b) They are cousins.
(c) They are not related.
(d) They are sisters.

14. In Chapter 1, what does Danny believe that Andrea's reaction to meeting him and Maeve the first time was?
(a) Her face fell.
(b) She embraced them.
(c) Her face lit up.
(d) She ignored them.

15. What was odd about the kitchen in the Dutch House in Danny's opinion?
(a) It had a copper ceiling.
(b) It was tiled in diamonds.
(c) It was dirty in a way that meant it could not be easily cleaned.
(d) It was small compared to the rest of the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve tell Danny about their mother's reason for leaving?

2. Who was Danny's father most comfortable with, in Danny's opinion in Chapter 2?

3. What explanation does Maeve give to Danny for how she treated Norma and Bright in Chapter 3?

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

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

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