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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tree's response to the man on the stoop?
(a) She is smitten.
(b) She is sympathetic.
(c) She is afraid.
(d) She is intimidated.

2. What does Tree asks M'Vy about Dab?
(a) Whether he had a disease.
(b) Whether he was hit as a baby.
(c) Whether he is going to die.
(d) What made him so sick and slow.

3. Why doesn't Tree appreciate Miss Pricherd's arrival?
(a) She always stays too long and asks too many questions.
(b) She always invites all her friends over.
(c) She always eats all the food in the house.
(d) She always makes a big mess of things.

4. Whose funeral does Dab say he attended, while Tree was in the vision in the car?
(a) Miss Pricherd's.
(b) Uncle Willie's.
(c) Brother Rush's.
(d) M'Vy's.

5. How does Tree approach the recognition that Brother Rush is her brother?
(a) She is afraid.
(b) She is incredulous.
(c) She wonders 'why me'.
(d) She is grateful for the knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Teresa respond to being noticed?

2. Why doesn't Dab get up?

3. How does the narrator characterize Dab's intellectual power?

4. Who notices Teresa?

5. How does Dab make Brother Rush angry, in Tree's vision?

(see the answer key)

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