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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Dab's intellectual power?
(a) Limited.
(b) Restless.
(c) Curious.
(d) Acute.

2. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Tree and Don?
(a) They are wary and standoffish toward each other.
(b) They bristle at each other.
(c) They become friends slowly.
(d) They hit it off.

3. What does Tree think when she finds pills in Dab's room?
(a) That he doesn't need the pills.
(b) That he was born with a birth defect.
(c) That he is a junkie.
(d) That he is terminally ill.

4. What is Tree afraid of?
(a) What Miss Pricherd saw.
(b) Going into her mind and getting trapped there.
(c) Dab getting sick and dying.
(d) Taking care of Dab by herself.

5. What does one of Tree's teachers suggest she take?
(a) Some time off.
(b) Advanced classes.
(c) A test to qualify for a scholarship.
(d) Vocational courses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Pricherd tell Tree?

2. How does Tree approach the recognition that Brother Rush is her brother?

3. What does Don do over dinner?

4. What does Tree feel when the note on the fridge makes her laugh?

5. What detail does Tree seize on in Brother Rush's story?

(see the answer key)

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