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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 explanation does Maeve give to Danny for how she treated Norma and Bright in Chapter 3?
(a) They are spoiled little girls so they deserve to be treated badly.
(b) She feels sorry for anyone who is that little.
(c) They are not her responsibility, so that is why she ignored them.
(d) They are Andrea's daughters, so she hates them.

2. How are Sandy and Jocelyn related?
(a) They are mother and daughter.
(b) They are cousins.
(c) They are sisters.
(d) They are not related.

3. Who comes to visit Maeve and Danny at Maeve's apartment in Chapter 7?
(a) Fluffy.
(b) Norma.
(c) Andrea.
(d) Sandy and Jocelyn.

4. What does Andrea tell Maeve when she offers to take the reins of her father's business after he dies?
(a) The business will be sold.
(b) It will not be necessary.
(c) The business will go on with the other people who work there just fine.
(d) Their father would not have wanted them involved in the business.

5. How does Maeve tell Danny to get into the city to visit her in Chapter 5?
(a) By ferry.
(b) On the train.
(c) By car.
(d) By airplane.

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. What does Maeve tell Andrea in Chapter 6 when Andrea's plans for the future become clear?

3. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve tell Danny about their mother's reason for leaving?

4. Who was the family that originally built the Dutch House?

5. How old is Andrea when she marries Cyril Conroy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Maeve tell Danny about her feelings towards Andrea and her children?

2. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father tell him when Danny finally gets up the courage to ask why his mother left?

3. In Chapter 2, what does Danny's father do for a family with a very sick child that Maeve is surprised to hear about?

4. In Chapter 5, what does Danny's father do when Andrea says she wants to come into New York City with him and Danny to visit Maeve?

5. In Chapter 5, what does Maeve remember about her mother's feelings about the Dutch House?

6. In Chapter 5, what is different about Danny's father's demeanor when they meet Maeve for dinner?

7. In Chapter 3, what does Andrea do one day that greatly surprises Danny and Maeve?

8. In Chapter 2, what does Danny do every Saturday with his father, and why is it important?

9. Why is there a portrait of Maeve hanging in the drawing room instead of Maeve's and Danny's mother?

10. In Chapter 1, what aspect of the house does Andrea express concern and misgivings about?

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