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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tree see when she takes Brother Rush's gloves?
(a) Soft tender palms.
(b) Scars and sores on his hands.
(c) He is missing part of a finger.
(d) Tattoos on his hands.

2. 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 Tree and Dab are her children.
(d) That Ken is still alive.

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

4. How does the narrator say M'Vy has always treated Dab?
(a) She got impatient with him.
(b) She beat him when he could not do things.
(c) She blamed him for being a half-wit.
(d) She made allowance for his debility.

5. Where does Tree ask Dab to take her?
(a) Back home.
(b) To the park.
(c) To the bathroom.
(d) To the car.

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

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

8. What does Tree tell Miss Pricherd?
(a) That Dab's room is haunted.
(b) That she is taking Dab's room for herself.
(c) That she is leaving.
(d) That she can't move in.

9. What does Tree want her mother to explain to her?
(a) Why she never told her about the accident.
(b) Why Brother Rush had died.
(c) Why she hadn't prevented the accident.
(d) Why Dab was so limited.

10. What is M'Vy worried the doctors will think when they see Dab?
(a) That M'Vy won't be able to afford to pay for his care.
(b) That he will die.
(c) That he is hooked on drugs.
(d) That she is unfit as a mother.

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

12. What does Tree realize after she packs her things?
(a) She doesn't have anywhere to go.
(b) This is only temporary, but M'Vy loves her.
(c) She likes Silversmith a lot and wants him as a step-father.
(d) Dab would want her to stay.

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

14. What did Silversmith leave for Tree?
(a) A long letter about her uncle's life.
(b) Macaroni and cheese.
(c) Chinese food.
(d) A telephone number to reach him.

15. What does the narrator say is the result of Tree describing details of Brother Rush's accident?
(a) It makes the ghost more real.
(b) It makes M'Vy distrust her.
(c) It makes Tree distrust her mother.
(d) It unnerves M'Vy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does M'Vy apologize to Tree for?

2. What stories does Don tell Tree?

3. What makes Tree erupt and scream at M'Vy and Silversmith?

4. What does Tree notice as being odd when she and Dab and Brother Rush get back in the car?

5. How does Dab seem to be doing, when Tree, M'Vy and Silversmith look into his room?

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