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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. Who does Maeve offer to give a ride home to at the train station the night before Thanksgiving in Chapter 8?
(a) Jocelyn.
(b) Fluffy.
(c) Celeste.
(d) Elna.

2. Who does Maeve tell Danny she has seen after many years in Chapter 11?
(a) Andrea.
(b) Elna.
(c) Cyril.
(d) Fluffy.

3. Who else comes to sit with Maeve in the hospital in Chapter 11 besides Danny?
(a) Cyril.
(b) Mr. Otterson.
(c) Elna.
(d) Fluffy.

4. What did Maeve's father bring to the Dutch House for them to eat the first time he showed she and her mother the house?
(a) Hot dogs.
(b) Sandwiches.
(c) Pasta salad.
(d) Cold pizza.

5. How does Celeste react when Danny tells her he is not going to practice medicine?
(a) She is upset and disappointed.
(b) She is upset, but all she really cares about is if he will be making a decent salary.
(c) She is happy.
(d) She is indifferent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maeve tell Danny when he asks about her love life?

2. What do Maeve and the person she offers a ride home to from the train station in Chapter 8 talk about on the car journey?

3. Where does Celeste go to college?

4. How does Danny feel towards Fluffy at the end of Chapter 12?

5. Where does Danny run into Celeste again after their breakup?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, why does Dr. Able begin inviting Danny to coffee and then dinner at his home?

2. In Chapter 8, why does Danny end up going to medical school?

3. In Chapter 8, why does Maeve insist on driving Celeste to her family home?

4. In Chapter 12, what does Fluffy tell Danny about his father's conversations with his mother around the time his mother left the family permanently?

5. In Chapter 8, what does Danny's professor, Dr. Able, tell him about chemistry?

6. In Chapter 12, what does Fluffy say about the reason for Danny's mother's charity work?

7. In Chapter 13, what does Fluffy tell Danny about how his father had gotten the money to buy his first plot of land?

8. In Chapter 13, what kind of relationship do Celeste and Fluffy develop?

9. In Chapter 12, what does Fluffy tell Danny that utterly shocks him?

10. In Chapter 8, what happens to Danny that makes Maeve tell him she must die first?

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