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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does M'Vy hint is wrong with Dab?
(a) A birth defect.
(b) A blood illness.
(c) Religious retribution for her sins.
(d) A childhood accident.

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

4. 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 going to die.
(c) That Dab was getting better.
(d) That Dab was dead.

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

6. What does Tree notice as being odd when she and Dab and Brother Rush get back in the car?
(a) Brother Rush keeps his hat on.
(b) Brother Rush is telling stories Tree doesn't understand.
(c) Brother Rush is driving slowly and delicately.
(d) Brother Rush won't talk with them.

7. What happens when Tree goes to the little room?
(a) Brother Rush is not there.
(b) She sees Brother Rush's funeral.
(c) Brother Rush tells her more stories.
(d) She sees scenes from M'Vy's childhood.

8. What makes Tree erupt and scream at M'Vy and Silversmith?
(a) M'Vy treats her as a child in front of Silversmith.
(b) M'Vy wants to leave Dab home alone.
(c) M'Vy goes to leave with Silversmith.
(d) M'Vy doesn't believe her.

9. Where does Tree find herself when she goes to see Brother Rush?
(a) In the car.
(b) At Brother Rush's funeral.
(c) In Brother Rush's house.
(d) At M'Vy's house.

10. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree tells her what she realized about Brother Rush?
(a) She does not believe her.
(b) She knows that Tree is wrong.
(c) She cannot believe in a universe that would allow a ghost to talk to a girl.
(d) She gets angry at Tree as if Tree were Brother Rush.

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

12. What detail does Tree seize on in Brother Rush's story?
(a) Other brothers.
(b) Other family members.
(c) Other disappearing fathers.
(d) Other car accidents in the family.

13. What does Don do over dinner?
(a) Whisper jokes to Tree.
(b) Help Tree reconcile with M'Vy.
(c) Flirt with Tree.
(d) Ignore Tree.

14. What does M'Vy tell Tree Ken loved?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Jazz.

15. What does Tree realize after talking with her mother?
(a) That she is being abandoned so her mother can go with Silversmith.
(b) That Silversmith will look after her now, and she can forgive her mother because things will change.
(c) That with Miss Pricherd in the house, she will have something like a family.
(d) That there is no forgiving what her mother has done, and she will have to live with it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Dab is suffering from, in addition to illness?

2. What was M'Vy's experience in the little room?

3. What does M'Vy say Dab and Brother Rush had in common?

4. What does Tree insist on at the funeral?

5. What does M'Vy say is Dab's problem?

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