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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. What are the names of Andrea's daughters?
(a) Kathryn and Angeline.
(b) Jenny and Sally.
(c) Fiona and Siobhan.
(d) Norma and Bright.

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

3. In Chapter 5, what does Danny say he and Maeve pretended about the Dutch House?
(a) That what they had lost was the house itself rather than their family - their mother and their father.
(b) That they wished the house would burn to the ground, which they really did not wish.
(c) That they wished ill on Andrea and her daughters, which only made them feel worse.
(d) That they still loved the house, when neither of them did.

4. What does Andrea propose about Danny's and his father's trip in Chapter 5?
(a) She does not want them to go.
(b) She has arranged for them all to take another holiday skiing up north at the same time.
(c) She threatens to divorce Cyril if he goes without her.
(d) She wants to go along with them and to bring her daughters, too.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what holiday does Danny visit Maeve in Chapter 5?

2. How old is Andrea when she marries Cyril Conroy?

3. Which neighbor do Maeve and Danny see when they park at the Dutch House in Chapter 5?

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

5. What does Jocelyn tell Andrea in Chapter 6 when Andrea fires her and Sandy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what do Danny and Maeve find out is the one way in which their father sought to provide for them after his death?

2. In Chapter 3, what does Andrea do one day that greatly surprises Danny and Maeve?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father do on a whim that is hugely significant for Danny?

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

10. What happens to Maeve shortly after her and Danny's mother leaves the family?

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