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

2. Who is the nanny Maeve tells Danny later in adulthood that their father was sleeping with?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Fluffy.
(c) Jocelyn.
(d) Elna.

3. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father tell him about asking people who they are voting for?
(a) Only to ask if Danny thought he would like the answer.
(b) Never to ask, because it violates a person's privacy.
(c) Only to ask if he thought they would be voting for who Danny's father was voting for.
(d) Always to ask, because the answer reveals a person's character.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Maeve tell Andrea in Chapter 6 when Andrea's plans for the future become clear?

3. How are Sandy and Jocelyn related?

4. What happens to Maeve right after her and Danny's mother leaves for good?

5. In Chapter 1, what does Danny believe that Andrea's reaction to meeting him and Maeve the first time was?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 6, how do Sandy and Jocelyn react to Andrea's instructions for Danny and Maeve to leave the house and never come back?

4. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve say when Danny tells her their father took him to see where their mother used to live?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 6, what does Danny's father tell him about his eventual role in his business?

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

8. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father tell him when Danny finally gets up the courage to ask why his mother left?

9. In Chapter 6, what does Danny think, in hindsight, was a huge mistake he and Maeve made after their father died?

10. 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?

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