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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tree see when she returns to the room?
(a) Brother Rush is older.
(b) Her mother has chased Brother Rush out of the room.
(c) Brother Rush is still there.
(d) Brother Rush has replaced the vision she saw at first.

2. What does the narrator say is the result of Tree describing details of Brother Rush's accident?
(a) It unnerves M'Vy.
(b) It makes Tree distrust her mother.
(c) It makes the ghost more real.
(d) It makes M'Vy distrust her.

3. What does Silversmith learn about M'Vy as M'Vy tells stories to Tree?
(a) That Ken is still alive.
(b) That she was married to Ken.
(c) That Tree and Dab are her children.
(d) That she had brothers.

4. Why does M'Vy say she kept quiet about her family?
(a) She says that wanted to beat fate.
(b) She says that she was afraid of what would happen if the children knew the stories.
(c) She says that she wanted to avoid repeating the patterns in the story.
(d) She says that she didn't understand what was happening at the time.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say M'Vy feels when she takes care of Dab?

2. What happens when Tree and Dab walk around while Brother Rush is sleeping?

3. Whose eyes did Tree realize she was seeing through?

4. What does Miss Pricherd do after opening the door?

5. How old is Dab?

(see the answer key)

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