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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?
(a) That she is leaving.
(b) That Dab's room is haunted.
(c) That she can't move in.
(d) That she is taking Dab's room for herself.

2. What happens when Tree and Dab walk around while Brother Rush is sleeping?
(a) Brother Rush gets sick.
(b) Tree loses her socks.
(c) Dab has a seizure.
(d) M'Vy shows up and gets angry.

3. What could Tree tell by the way M'Vy walked into the house, at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) That she was responsible for Dab's condition.
(b) That Dab was getting better.
(c) That Dab was going to die.
(d) That Dab was dead.

4. What does Tree realize when she is in the vision?
(a) That Dab is dead.
(b) That M'Vy was not responsible.
(c) That Brother Rush is a figment of her imagination.
(d) That it's possible to communicate with the dead.

5. What does M'Vy apologize to Tree for?
(a) Not knowing what to do about Dab.
(b) Not telling her important things about the past.
(c) Not introducing Silversmith to her earlier.
(d) Leaving Dab with her.

6. What does Tree tell M'Vy about Brother Rush?
(a) How unhappy he was.
(b) How ready he was to die.
(c) How good he looked in his suit.
(d) How much he cared for her.

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

8. What does M'Vy insist will be the fastest way to get Dab help?
(a) To take Dab directly to the substance abuse ward.
(b) To call an ambulance.
(c) To go to the Emergency Room.
(d) To go through General Admittance.

9. What does Tree feel when the note on the fridge makes her laugh?
(a) Guilty for laughing while Dab is sick.
(b) Guilty for not being with Dab in the hospital.
(c) Delighted by Silversmith's sense of humor.
(d) Relief, as if now things will be alright.

10. What does Tree realize as her mother tells her stories?
(a) That she never knew where she came from.
(b) That it never mattered to her, who her father had been.
(c) That her mother has been gone a lot of the time.
(d) That she has never asked questions.

11. What does M'Vy apologize to Tree for?
(a) Not having had her tested.
(b) Not being a good mother.
(c) Years of neglect.
(d) All the things she has done.

12. Who stays with Tree while M'Vy sees to Dab?
(a) No one.
(b) Silversmith.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A mother in the waiting room.

13. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Tree and Don?
(a) They are wary and standoffish toward each other.
(b) They hit it off.
(c) They bristle at each other.
(d) They become friends slowly.

14. What does M'Vy try to ease Tree's mind about?
(a) Guilt about Dab's death.
(b) The future with her and Silversmith.
(c) The nature of the afterlife.
(d) Porphyria.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say M'Vy has always treated Dab?

2. What does M'Vy tell Tree?

3. What does M'Vy do when Tree and Dab come back to the room from their visions?

4. What detail does Tree seize on in Brother Rush's story?

5. Why does M'Vy say she kept quiet about her family?

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