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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tree do when she sees her mother?
(a) Laughs joyfully.
(b) Faints.
(c) Runs out of the kitchen.
(d) Cries non-stop.

2. Where does M'Vy say Dab is, when she finds Tree again?
(a) Getting x-rays.
(b) In a special room.
(c) In the lab getting blood work.
(d) In surgery.

3. Why does Tree tell Dab to get up?
(a) They have to go shopping.
(b) It is time for his lessons.
(c) She wants time to herself.
(d) Miss Pricherd has to clean his room.

4. 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.

5. How does Miss Pricherd respond when Tree calls her by her nickname?
(a) She does a dance in her slippers.
(b) She makes up a similarly fanciful name for Tree.
(c) She chases Tree around the house.
(d) She gets angry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does one of Tree's teachers suggest she take?

3. How does Tree characterize the man on the stoop?

4. What is Dab upset about at dinner?

5. What does Brother Rush do at night?

(see the answer key)

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