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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What else does Tree realize in the vision?
(a) That Brother Rush was not thrown from the car, he jumped.
(b) That Ken had wanted Brother Rush to die.
(c) That Brother Rush had caused the accident that killed him.
(d) That Ken had killed himself for grief over killing Brother Rush.

3. What wakes Tree up, after she decides to run away?
(a) She hears an odd noise from the little room.
(b) She thought she heard Dab calling her.
(c) Miss Pricherd is cleaning Dab's room.
(d) Her mother and Silversmith are getting ready to go out.

4. What is Miss Pricherd doing, when Tree sees her?
(a) Starting to box things up so M'Vy and Tree can move.
(b) Cleaning the kitchen.
(c) Cleaning Dab's room.
(d) Throwing out Dab's things.

5. What does M'Vy admit to, after Tree finds pills in Dab's room?
(a) Despairing about ever helping Dab.
(b) Hating Dab.
(c) Hating herself.
(d) Being in denial.

6. What was M'Vy's experience in the little room?
(a) She saw the vision Dab had.
(b) She saw a different vision than either child.
(c) She saw the vision Tree had.
(d) She didn't see Brother Rush.

7. What does M'Vy say she should have done?
(a) Stopped Dab from taking drugs.
(b) Had Dab inoculated.
(c) Have all the children tested.
(d) Taken Dab to the hospital much sooner.

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

9. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree knows details of Brother Rush's story?
(a) She is shocked.
(b) She is not surprised.
(c) She is confused and upset.
(d) She is angry.

10. What does M'Vy say Dab and Brother Rush had in common?
(a) The urge to die.
(b) The urge to get better.
(c) The desire to have their own way without understanding themselves.
(d) A rare blood condition.

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

12. What does M'Vy tell Tree?
(a) That Dab had told her that he didn't want a service.
(b) That she and Silversmith have started a catering business.
(c) That she and Silversmith are getting married.
(d) That Silversmith doesn't have money to pay for the funeral either.

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

14. What do Brother Rush's hands do while Tree and Dab are looking at them?
(a) They seem to dance.
(b) They reach out for Tree and Dab.
(c) They lie still as if her were dead.
(d) Clench and tremble.

15. What threat does Tree make, when she and M'Vy disagree about the funeral?
(a) To hurt herself.
(b) To tell Silversmith about M'Vy.
(c) To run away.
(d) To hurt M'Vy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Tree say her knowledge about family came from?

3. What does Tree see when she takes Brother Rush's gloves?

4. What are Tree's feelings in the hospital?

5. What happens when Tree goes to the little room?

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