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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tree tell Miss Pricherd about the little room?
(a) There wasn't anyone there.
(b) The room is magical.
(c) She had hallucinated.
(d) Her brother visited her there.

2. What answer does Brother Rush give to Tree's question?
(a) He says that he is going home.
(b) He does not answer.
(c) He tells Tree to help him.
(d) He says that she cannot help him.

3. What does Dab see when he comes to the little room with her?
(a) He doesn't see anything.
(b) He sees Brother Rush.
(c) He sees Brother Rush's car accident.
(d) He sees the woman with the baby.

4. What does Tree really resent about Miss Pricherd?
(a) She is a cheat.
(b) She is a sneak.
(c) She is dirty.
(d) She is a liar.

5. Who notices Teresa?
(a) Boys on the corner.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her teachers.

6. What does the man on the stoop remind Tree of?
(a) A blues musician.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A do-wah singer.
(d) A fighter.

7. How did Brother Rush die?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) Illness.
(c) In an accident at the plant.
(d) In a knife fight.

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

9. How does the narrator characterize Tree's feeling, standing in the little room with Brother Rush?
(a) She feels like the laws of time and gravity do not apply to her.
(b) She feels transported to a faraway place.
(c) She feels like she is not herself any more.
(d) She feels like she is dreaming, and anything is possible.

10. What time of day does it always seem to be in Tree's house?
(a) Night.
(b) Afternoon.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Noon.

11. What is M'Vy scared by?
(a) Miss Pricherd's nervousness.
(b) Brother Rush's driving.
(c) The darkness in the house.
(d) Dab's health.

12. How old is Teresa?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Ten.

13. What makes the baby happy?
(a) Brother Rush.
(b) The sunlight.
(c) The mother.
(d) The insects in the field.

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

15. Where is Dab when Tree and M'Vy are in the little room?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In the doorway.
(c) In bed.
(d) In the living room reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tree feel like she is transported to?

2. How does Teresa respond to being noticed?

3. Where does Brother Rush take Tree and Dab?

4. How old is Dab?

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

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