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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 Silversmith?
(a) A large man with gentle, soft features.
(b) A large man with a graying afro.
(c) A slender man, beautiful and aloof, like Brother Rush.
(d) An older version of Brother Rush.

2. What does M'Vy know will happen when she takes Dab to the hospital?
(a) He will be cured for good.
(b) He will be taken from her.
(c) He will never leave.
(d) He will die.

3. Who is Dab?
(a) Tree's cousin.
(b) The man on the stoop.
(c) Tree's teacher.
(d) Tree's brother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What broken thing makes Tree wonder why broken things aren't fixed?

2. Who stays with Tree while M'Vy sees to Dab?

3. What answer does Brother Rush give to Tree's question?

4. What does Tree really resent about Miss Pricherd?

5. Who showed up by six p.m.?

(see the answer key)

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