1. In Chapter 2, what is Danny's mother's behavior leading up to her leaving the family?
(a) She takes more and more education.
(b) She is absent for longer and longer periods.
(c) She stays in bed all the time.
(d) She yells at the workers in the house often.

2. What does Fluffy tell Danny she took once from the Dutch House before Danny's father owned it?
(a) A diamond and ruby ring.
(b) A chandelier.
(c) An oil painting.
(d) A valuable blanket.

3. What does Andrea propose about Danny's and his father's trip in Chapter 5?
(a) She does not want them to go.
(b) She wants to go along with them and to bring her daughters, too.
(c) She has arranged for them all to take another holiday skiing up north at the same time.
(d) She threatens to divorce Cyril if he goes without her.

4. In Chapter 5, why is Danny excited about his father taking him to visit Maeve at college?
(a) He has never ridden in a car alone with his father.
(b) He needs to ask his father an important question.
(c) He wants his father and Maeve to make amends between them.
(d) It will be just the three of them for the first time in a long time.

5. In Chapter 6, what does Andrea think has happened when she finds Maeve, Danny, Sandy and Jocelyn in the kitchen after their father's death?
(a) She thinks their mother has died.
(b) She thinks something might have happened to Bright and Norma.
(c) She thinks one of Sandy's children has died.
(d) She thinks Maeve is sicker than everyone thought.