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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 does Andrea propose about Danny's and his father's trip in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 5, how does Danny's father end up handling his trip to see Maeve at college?

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

4. In Chapter 3, what happens the first time Andrea leaves Maeve and Danny alone with her two daughters?

5. In Chapter 6, what do the doctors tell Maeve and Danny is the probably cause of their father's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

6. In Chapter 7, who does Maeve turn to for help with her father's affairs, and what does he tell her?

7. In Chapter 7, what does Maeve tell Danny about her feelings towards Andrea and her children?

8. 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?

9. In Chapter 2, what does Danny's father do for a family with a very sick child that Maeve is surprised to hear about?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Cyril Conroy's handling of Maeve's diagnosis with diabetes as a child - and his attitude towards her and her illness - reveal about Cyril's and Maeve's relationship in general? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay analyzing the meaning of Maeve's portrait, including a discussion of why her portrait was painted rather than her parents' portraits. What do you think it meant to both Maeve and Danny for Maeve to take the portrait back at the end of the book?

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