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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Tree's feelings in the hospital?
(a) She is afraid and upset.
(b) She is curious about everything.
(c) She is frustrated by the long wait before anything can be done.
(d) She is reassured by the doctors and nurses.

2. What do M'Vy, Tree and Silversmith have to do before they can see Dab?
(a) Account for Dab's household conditions.
(b) Wash their hands.
(c) Go home and wait.
(d) A lot of paperwork.

3. What does Tree tell M'Vy about the funeral?
(a) What Dab wants for a tombstone.
(b) Who should be invited.
(c) Who should perform the service.
(d) Where it should be held.

4. What does Tree realize as her mother tells her stories?
(a) That her mother has been gone a lot of the time.
(b) That she has never asked questions.
(c) That it never mattered to her, who her father had been.
(d) That she never knew where she came from.

5. What makes Tree erupt and scream at M'Vy and Silversmith?
(a) M'Vy treats her as a child in front of Silversmith.
(b) M'Vy doesn't believe her.
(c) M'Vy goes to leave with Silversmith.
(d) M'Vy wants to leave Dab home alone.

6. What do Brother Rush's hands do while Tree and Dab are looking at them?
(a) They reach out for Tree and Dab.
(b) Clench and tremble.
(c) They seem to dance.
(d) They lie still as if her were dead.

7. What does M'Vy try to ease Tree's mind about?
(a) The future with her and Silversmith.
(b) The nature of the afterlife.
(c) Porphyria.
(d) Guilt about Dab's death.

8. What was M'Vy's experience in the little room?
(a) She saw the vision Dab had.
(b) She saw the vision Tree had.
(c) She didn't see Brother Rush.
(d) She saw a different vision than either child.

9. Why has Brother Rush covered his face, in Tree's vision?
(a) To hide from M'Vy.
(b) To guard against sunlight.
(c) To keep from seeing things that upset him.
(d) To hide his feelings.

10. What does Tree realize after she packs her things?
(a) Dab would want her to stay.
(b) She likes Silversmith a lot and wants him as a step-father.
(c) She doesn't have anywhere to go.
(d) This is only temporary, but M'Vy loves her.

11. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree knows details of Brother Rush's story?
(a) She is shocked.
(b) She is angry.
(c) She is not surprised.
(d) She is confused and upset.

12. What does M'Vy admit to, after Tree finds pills in Dab's room?
(a) Despairing about ever helping Dab.
(b) Hating herself.
(c) Hating Dab.
(d) Being in denial.

13. What does M'Vy hint is wrong with Dab?
(a) A birth defect.
(b) A childhood accident.
(c) A blood illness.
(d) Religious retribution for her sins.

14. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree tells her what she realized about Brother Rush?
(a) She cannot believe in a universe that would allow a ghost to talk to a girl.
(b) She gets angry at Tree as if Tree were Brother Rush.
(c) She does not believe her.
(d) She knows that Tree is wrong.

15. How does the narrator say M'Vy feels when she takes care of Dab?
(a) More desperate.
(b) More miserable.
(c) Less guilty.
(d) More concerned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Dab is suffering from, in addition to illness?

2. What does M'Vy insist will be the fastest way to get Dab help?

3. What does Miss Pricherd say will happen to Dab's things?

4. What does Tree insist on at the funeral?

5. What does M'Vy tell Tree Ken loved?

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