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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What boarding school does Danny attend for high school?
(a) Choate.
(b) Exeter.
(c) Taft.
(d) Oxford.
2. In Chapter 1, what does Danny believe that Andrea's reaction to meeting him and Maeve the first time was?
(a) Her face lit up.
(b) She ignored them.
(c) She embraced them.
(d) Her face fell.
3. In Chapter 5, where does Maeve spend part of Christmas?
(a) At her boyfriend's house in Jenkintown.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) A friend's house in New Hampshire.
(d) Barnard.
4. What does Maeve's and Danny's old neighbor tell them about Andrea in Chapter 4?
(a) She never waves or smiles and she seems like a very sad person.
(b) She is the friendliest neighbor she could wish for.
(c) She can often be heard screaming at her girls.
(d) She has plans to move out of the Dutch House.
5. What does Andrea tell Maeve when she offers to take the reins of her father's business after he dies?
(a) The business will be sold.
(b) It will not be necessary.
(c) Their father would not have wanted them involved in the business.
(d) The business will go on with the other people who work there just fine.
6. Who came to tell Danny and Maeve their father wanted them to meet Andrea the first time she came to the house in Chapter 1?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Fluffy.
(c) Jocelyn.
(d) Elna.
7. Where does Maeve go to college?
(a) Barnard.
(b) Sarah Lawrence.
(c) Smith.
(d) Temple.
8. In Chapter 6, where does Maeve go to work after her graduation from college?
(a) Bertie's Pastries.
(b) Otterson's Frozen Vegetables.
(c) Swanson's Meats.
(d) Jansen's Sausages.
9. In Chapter 5, what does Danny say he and Maeve pretended about the Dutch House?
(a) That they wished ill on Andrea and her daughters, which only made them feel worse.
(b) That they wished the house would burn to the ground, which they really did not wish.
(c) That they still loved the house, when neither of them did.
(d) That what they had lost was the house itself rather than their family - their mother and their father.
10. In Chapter 6, what does Danny remember his father saying about Andrea marrying a Catholic if she hated Catholics so much?
(a) She had wanted a Catholic burial.
(b) She had wanted to convert to Catholicism.
(c) She had wanted her daughters to be raised Catholic.
(d) She had wanted the Catholic's house.
11. In Chapter 5, where does Danny's father take Danny that surprises him?
(a) Into Harlem.
(b) Into Brooklyn, where Danny's father used to live.
(c) Into Philadelphia, to a museum.
(d) Into the Bronx zoo, even though Danny's father hates zoos.
12. In Chapter 5, what kind of restaurant does Danny's father take him and Maeve to?
(a) An Italian restaurant.
(b) An Ethiopian restaurant.
(c) A Mexican restaurant.
(d) A sushi restaurant.
13. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve tell Danny about their mother's reason for leaving?
(a) She was sick of their father's attitudes towards money.
(b) She had met someone else and wanted to run away with him.
(c) She hated the Dutch House.
(d) She thought their father worked way too much and that it was hurting their family.
14. What does Andrea propose about Danny's and his father's trip in Chapter 5?
(a) She has arranged for them all to take another holiday skiing up north at the same time.
(b) She wants to go along with them and to bring her daughters, too.
(c) She threatens to divorce Cyril if he goes without her.
(d) She does not want them to go.
15. 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 father's cuff links.
(b) Their stash of money.
(c) Their mother's glass butter dish.
(d) Their father's journals.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is Maeve's portrait hanging in the Dutch House instead of her mother's?
2. What happens to Maeve right after her and Danny's mother leaves for good?
3. In Chapter 6, where does Danny feel most at home?
4. How does Maeve tell Danny to get into the city to visit her in Chapter 5?
5. Where does Danny live after Andrea kicks him out of the Dutch House?
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