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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tree ask Brother Rush?
(a) Why he is doing this to her.
(b) What she can do for him.
(c) Whether he is alright.
(d) Where he is going.

2. What is Tree like as a student?
(a) She lags.
(b) Excellent.
(c) Mediocre.
(d) Indifferent.

3. What doe Brother Rush do to Dab, in Tree's vision?
(a) Throws him into the back seat.
(b) Throws him out of the car.
(c) Puts him upright on his lap in the front seat.
(d) Comforts him.

4. What is Tree's response to the man on the stoop?
(a) She is intimidated.
(b) She is afraid.
(c) She is smitten.
(d) She is sympathetic.

5. Where does Tree look for Miss Pricherd first?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) Dab's room.
(c) Her room.
(d) The little room.

6. What does Tree do for Dab?
(a) She makes breakfast.
(b) She washes him in bed.
(c) She cleans his room.
(d) She makes Miss Pricherd go away.

7. What snaps Tree back to the present?
(a) She is called by her mother.
(b) A breeze blows through.
(c) She gets hungry.
(d) Dab comes into the room.

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

9. What does Dab do all day?
(a) Goes to school.
(b) Watches television.
(c) Walks around the neighbor.
(d) Stays in bed.

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

11. How does Tree approach the recognition that Brother Rush is her brother?
(a) She is incredulous.
(b) She wonders 'why me'.
(c) She is afraid.
(d) She is grateful for the knowledge.

12. Where is Tree going, in her vision?
(a) Home.
(b) To a place she doesn't know.
(c) To the house where her mother and Brother Rush lived.
(d) Aunt Binnie's house.

13. What does Tree imagine of Brother Rush's?
(a) His speech.
(b) His clothing.
(c) His travels.
(d) His experience.

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

15. Who showed up by six p.m.?
(a) Miss Pricherd.
(b) M'Vy.
(c) Brother Rush.
(d) Silversmith.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator characterize the rooms in Tree's house?

4. What is Tree afraid of?

5. What does Dab see when he comes to the little room with her?

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