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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. What year was the construction on the Dutch House finished in?
2. What happens to Maeve right after her and Danny's mother leaves for good?
3. What does Jocelyn tell Andrea in Chapter 6 when Andrea fires her and Sandy?
4. What kind of flowers did Andrea rent for the day for her wedding to Cyril Conroy?
5. What was odd about the kitchen in the Dutch House in Danny's opinion?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father do on a whim that is hugely significant for Danny?
2. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve remember about her mother's feelings about the Dutch House?
3. In Chapter 2, what does Danny's father do for a family with a very sick child that Maeve is surprised to hear about?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter 6, what does Danny's father tell him about his eventual role in his business?
6. 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?
7. In Chapter 3, what does Andrea do one day that greatly surprises Danny and Maeve?
8. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve say when Danny tells her their father took him to see where their mother used to live?
9. When Cyril Conroy bought the Dutch House, what kind of a state was it in?
10. In Chapter 1, what aspect of the house does Andrea express concern and misgivings about?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing how, when, and why Maeve begins to separate herself from the Conroy family in her youth. How do her father, Cyril Conroy, and her younger brother, Danny Conroy, react to Maeve's withdrawal?
Essay Topic 2
At different points all throughout the novel, Danny wonders to himself and aloud to Maeve how accurate their memories and recollections of the past are. Write an essay analyzing Patchett's treatment of the theme of memory, and on how reliable any one individual's memory of the past is in this novel.
Essay Topic 3
Why is it so important to Maeve that Danny attend medical school, and how does her insistence on this specific part of his future affect Danny's relationship with Maeve? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.
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