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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, how does Danny's father end up handling his trip to see Maeve at college?
(a) Danny's father hires a car to drive him.
(b) Danny's father cancels Danny's trip.
(c) Danny's father drives him to the city himself, just the two of them, before Andrea realizes they have left without her.
(d) Danny's father relents to Andrea's demands and they all go into the city together.

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

3. What does the ceiling of the dining room at Dutch House look like?
(a) It is mosaic.
(b) It is intensely blue, with gold gilt leaves.
(c) It is a copper ceiling.
(d) It has the biggest chandelier Danny has ever seen.

4. What does Andrea say must be a comfort to Danny's father as she tours the house for the first time in Chapter 1?
(a) The fireplaces.
(b) The portraits of the Conroys.
(c) The chandeliers.
(d) The portraits of the Van Hoebeeks.

5. In Chapter 5, what kind of restaurant does Danny's father take him and Maeve to?
(a) A Mexican restaurant.
(b) A sushi restaurant.
(c) An Ethiopian restaurant.
(d) An Italian restaurant.

6. Who presides at Cyril Conroy's funeral?
(a) Father Brewer.
(b) Father Minty.
(c) Father McCarthy.
(d) Father Taffera.

7. What did Danny's nanny do to hurt him when he was four years old?
(a) Hit him on the head with a wooden spoon.
(b) Burned his hand.
(c) Slapped his face.
(d) Smacked his bottom.

8. In Chapter 6, who was with Cyril Conroy when he fell ill?
(a) Jocelyn.
(b) Elna Conroy.
(c) Mr. Brennan, who worked for him.
(d) Andrea.

9. What boarding school does Danny attend for high school?
(a) Taft.
(b) Exeter.
(c) Choate.
(d) Oxford.

10. In Chapter 5, where does Danny's father take Danny that surprises him?
(a) Into Brooklyn, where Danny's father used to live.
(b) Into the Bronx zoo, even though Danny's father hates zoos.
(c) Into Harlem.
(d) Into Philadelphia, to a museum.

11. In Chapter 6, who calls Maeve to tell her that her father has died?
(a) Mrs. Kennedy.
(b) Andrea.
(c) Sandy.
(d) Jocelyn.

12. In Chapter 5, what strikes Danny about the place his mother used to live?
(a) There are bars on the window.
(b) The front door is broken.
(c) It is far more luxurious than he was led to believe.
(d) It looks like it has no heat or electricity.

13. What is Maeve wearing in the portrait of herself in the Dutch House?
(a) A royal blue dress.
(b) A bright red coat.
(c) A bright green coat.
(d) A bright purple dress.

14. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father tell him about asking people who they are voting for?
(a) Only to ask if Danny thought he would like the answer.
(b) Always to ask, because the answer reveals a person's character.
(c) Never to ask, because it violates a person's privacy.
(d) Only to ask if he thought they would be voting for who Danny's father was voting for.

15. In Chapter 5, what did Danny's father tell Maeve when she told him she wanted to try to find her mother?
(a) She should think of her mother as dead.
(b) If she went to try to find her, she was not allowed back in the house.
(c) Andrea would not allow Maeve to go to try to find her mother.
(d) She should go and try to find her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what does Danny remember his father saying about Andrea marrying a Catholic if she hated Catholics so much?

2. In Chapter 3, what does Maeve tell her father is not hers and Danny's responsibility?

3. What does Jocelyn tell Andrea in Chapter 6 when Andrea fires her and Sandy?

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

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

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