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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what happens the first time Andrea leaves Maeve and Danny alone with her two daughters?
(a) Maeve ignores the daughters completely.
(b) Maeve is very kind to the daughters and tries to make them feel welcome.
(c) Danny calls the police and tells them the two daughters have been abandoned.
(d) Maeve takes the girls to the park.

2. In Chapter 2, where does Danny go with his father every Saturday?
(a) To volunteer at Habitat for Humanity.
(b) To shop for food.
(c) To collect the rent.
(d) To gamble.

3. What does Maeve tell Danny about their father's interpretation of the reason their mother left them?
(a) Their mother had left them because her own parents had disowned her and she wanted to try to make amends.
(b) Their mother had been very sick and that was why she left.
(c) Their mother had left them to go back to the convent.
(d) Their mother was not crazy as their father had told Danny.

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

5. In Chapter 7, who does Maeve turn to for legal advice about the situation with Andrea?
(a) Her boyfriend, who was a lawyer.
(b) A friend's father, who was an estate lawyer.
(c) Lawyer Gooch, an old friend of their father's.
(d) Maeve and Danny's grandfather, who was also a laywer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did Cyril Conroy not have a will?

4. What does the lawyer Maeve consults tell her her father told him when he advised against going along with Andrea's wishes?

5. In Chapter 3, what does Maeve tell her father is not hers and Danny's responsibility?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Maeve tell Danny about her feelings towards Andrea and her children?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Danny's father do for a family with a very sick child that Maeve is surprised to hear about?

3. In Chapter 1, what do Danny and Maeve think about the fact that their father wants them to meet a friend at the house on a Saturday?

4. Why is there a portrait of Maeve hanging in the drawing room instead of Maeve's and Danny's mother?

5. In Chapter 2, how does Danny say he feels about his mother?

6. In Chapter 7, who does Maeve turn to for help with her father's affairs, and what does he tell her?

7. Why is the Dutch House called the Dutch House?

8. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve remember about her mother's feelings about the Dutch House?

9. In Chapter 5, what is different about Danny's father's demeanor when they meet Maeve for dinner?

10. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father do when Andrea says she wants to come into New York City with him and Danny to visit Maeve?

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