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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 Fluffy tell Danny about his mother in Chapter 12?
2. How does Danny feel towards Fluffy at the end of Chapter 12?
3. In what month do Celeste and Danny get married?
4. In Chapter 13, who is Danny's first child?
5. How does Danny handle his first time working on a cadaver in medical school?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 8, what happens to Danny that makes Maeve tell him she must die first?
2. In Chapter 12, who does Danny meet up with from his past and what do they talk about?
3. In Chapter 13, what does Fluffy tell Danny about how his father had gotten the money to buy his first plot of land?
4. In Chapter 8, what does Danny call lawyer Gooch to ask him?
5. In Chapter 8, why does Danny end up going to medical school?
6. In Chapter 14, what role does Maeve play in Danny's growing real estate business?
7. 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?
8. In Chapter 12, what does Fluffy tell Danny about her life in the Dutch House and her plans concerning his father?
9. In Chapter 8, why does Dr. Able begin inviting Danny to coffee and then dinner at his home?
10. 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?
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
While Danny carries some resentments towards his father Cyril into adulthood, he generally regards his father with respect and goodwill. Danny does, however, lament that his father neglected to show more warmth and affection towards him and Maeve. Write an essay comparing and contrasting the way Danny remembers Cyril parenting himself and Maeve with how Danny himself parents his own children, May and Kevin.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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