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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who comes to visit Maeve and Danny at Maeve's apartment in Chapter 7?
2. What does the ceiling of the dining room at Dutch House look like?
3. In Chapter 3, what does Andrea do one Saturday that shocks Danny and Maeve?
4. What does Maeve's and Danny's old neighbor tell them about Andrea in Chapter 4?
5. Who was Danny's father most comfortable with, in Danny's opinion in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 1, what aspect of the house does Andrea express concern and misgivings about?
2. Why is there a portrait of Maeve hanging in the drawing room instead of Maeve's and Danny's mother?
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 6, what does Danny's father tell him about his eventual role in his business?
5. In Chapter 2, what does Danny do every Saturday with his father, and why is it important?
6. In Chapter 2, what does Danny's father do for a family with a very sick child that Maeve is surprised to hear about?
7. Why is the Dutch House called the Dutch House?
8. In Chapter 5, what is different about Danny's father's demeanor when they meet Maeve for dinner?
9. In Chapter 6, what does Danny think, in hindsight, was a huge mistake he and Maeve made after their father died?
10. What does Danny remember about Fluffy in Chapter 1?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does visiting Andrea at the Dutch House at the novel's end and finding her mentally incapacitated by a debilitating degenerative disease seem to affect Maeve and Danny? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing the symbolism and meaning of May Conroy's acquiring the Dutch House at the end of the novel, returning the ownership of the building to the Conroy family again.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 13, Danny buys a house for his wife without asking her for her opinion on the house first. Write an essay analyzing the differences and similarities between Danny's choice to buy a house this way and his father Cyril's choice to buy the Dutch House under similar circumstances decades earlier.
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