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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, where does Maeve spend part of Christmas?
(a) A friend's house in New Hampshire.
(b) Barnard.
(c) At her boyfriend's house in Jenkintown.
(d) Philadelphia.

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

4. In Chapter 5, why is Maeve so amazed that her father showed Danny where their mother used to live?
(a) She thought her father had been so angry he would never speak about their mother again.
(b) She did not know their father even knew where her mother used to live.
(c) She thought her father was too hurt and saddened by their mother to ever speak of her again.
(d) All the times Maeve had asked for information about their mother, he never told her anything.

5. What kind of flowers did Andrea rent for the day for her wedding to Cyril Conroy?
(a) Roses.
(b) Water lilies.
(c) Sunflowers.
(d) Peonies.

6. 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.

7. Why is it difficult for Cyril Conroy to go up and down stairs in Chapter 4?
(a) He has broken his ankle.
(b) He has a bad back.
(c) He uses crutches.
(d) He has a bad knee.

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

9. Which neighborhood is the Dutch House located in?
(a) The Peaceful Hills.
(b) Elkins Park.
(c) Camelot Drive.
(d) Harmony Ridge.

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

11. 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) She should go and try to find her.
(c) She should think of her mother as dead.
(d) Andrea would not allow Maeve to go to try to find her mother.

12. What does Andrea tell Maeve when she offers to take the reins of her father's business after he dies?
(a) The business will go on with the other people who work there just fine.
(b) It will not be necessary.
(c) The business will be sold.
(d) Their father would not have wanted them involved in the business.

13. In Chapter 5, how does Danny's father end up handling his trip to see Maeve at college?
(a) Danny's father hires a car to drive him.
(b) Danny's father drives him to the city himself, just the two of them, before Andrea realizes they have left without her.
(c) Danny's father relents to Andrea's demands and they all go into the city together.
(d) Danny's father cancels Danny's trip.

14. 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 needs to ask his father an important question.
(c) He has never ridden in a car alone with his father.
(d) It will be just the three of them for the first time in a long time.

15. 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) Fluffy.
(b) Sandy.
(c) Elna.
(d) Jocelyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Broadway show does Andrea want to see with her daughters in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 5, what kind of restaurant does Danny's father take him and Maeve to?

3. Who comes to visit Maeve and Danny at Maeve's apartment in Chapter 7?

4. What is Maeve wearing in the portrait of herself in the Dutch House?

5. How does Maeve tell Danny to get into the city to visit her in Chapter 5?

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