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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Benny's father's business?
(a) Hogan's Outfitters
(b) Morgan's Clothing
(c) Logan's Haberdashery
(d) Reagan's Outfitters

2. What does Eve suggest Benny tell Mrs. Healy about why they are in the hotel?
(a) that she is looking for school things
(b) that she is waiting for her mother
(c) that she is looking for a gift
(d) that she is taking a survey

3. Why does Nan not notify her parents?
(a) she knows they don't care
(b) her mother has a heart condition
(c) her mother is at work and her father will make a fuss
(d) she thinks they will make her come home

4. Why does Benny put off taking Nan to see Eve?
(a) she is not sure how Eve will react to a beautiful girl
(b) she wants to keep her friends apart
(c) she thinks it will tire Eve out too much
(d) she is afraid Eve will like her better

5. What does Benny see in the mirror after trying on the new clothes?
(a) a large girl who looks slimmer in the new clothes
(b) a large girl who looks like a clown
(c) a large child ready to leave for school
(d) a large child with a red face wearing a jumper

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man who enters the hotel and keeps looking at Nan?

2. What does Eve tell Benny about Kit?

3. Who was Bunty Brown that Mother Francis tells Kit about?

4. What funny thing does the Protestant Heather want to know about nuns?

5. What is in a letter for Benny that she does not want Nan and Eve to know about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Benny learn about how Eve has lived all these years that Benny has pitied her?

2. How does Eve accept Benny's explanation for why she cannot stay overnight with Eve?

3. How does Nan get a generous allowance from her father, Brian Mahon, when she starts at the university?

4. What is Eve wearing at the dance that gets her many compliments?

5. Detail what portends a future problem in the novel.

6. Explain why Brian wants Nan to study downstairs with her brothers.

7. What do Eve and Heather talk about as they get better acquainted?

8. Describe the meeting of Jack, Benny, and Nan at the hospital.

9. What bothers Benny at the party and dance when she wears the dress Clodagh made for her?

10. Why does Clodagh tell Fonzie not to write her any more letters?

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