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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 Maeve tell Danny when he asks about her love life?
2. 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?
3. Which professor of Danny's gives him extra homework because he is not doing well in Chapter 8?
4. In Chapter 15, what makes Maeve and Danny not want to return to the Dutch House after their last visit?
5. Where is the person Maeve offers a ride from the train station to in Chapter 8 from?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 8, why does Danny end up going to medical school?
2. In Chapter 8, how does Maeve get her point across to Danny about what she thinks he should do about Celeste pressuring him to get married?
3. In Chapter 13, what do Danny and Celeste do for childcare arrangements when their second child is due very shortly after having their first child?
4. In Chapter 8, what does Celeste say to Danny when he tells her he does not want to marry her right away?
5. In Chapter 8, why does Dr. Able begin inviting Danny to coffee and then dinner at his home?
6. In Chapter 8, what does Maeve tell Danny about her feelings about his becoming a doctor?
7. In Chapter 12, what does Fluffy tell Danny that utterly shocks him?
8. In Chapter 13, what does Fluffy tell Danny about how his father had gotten the money to buy his first plot of land?
9. In Chapter 8, what does Danny's professor, Dr. Able, tell him about chemistry?
10. In Chapter 8, why does Danny first end up in Harlem?
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
Write an essay analyzing why Danny finally decides to at least pretend to forgive Elna for leaving the family when he was a child. When does he genuinely begin to let go of his anger, resentment and bitterness towards her?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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