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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Tree realize after talking with her mother?
(a) That there is no forgiving what her mother has done, and she will have to live with it.
(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 with Miss Pricherd in the house, she will have something like a family.

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

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

6. What does Miss Pricherd say will happen to Dab's things?
(a) They will be thrown away.
(b) They will go with Tree wherever she goes.
(c) They will be burned.
(d) They will be stored.

7. What causes the car accident that kills Brother Rush?
(a) A dog in the road.
(b) A child in the road.
(c) Another car.
(d) A bicycle in the road.

8. What does M'Vy say is Dab's problem?
(a) Heroin withdrawal.
(b) Porphyria.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) A brain tumor.

9. Who is Don?
(a) A ghost.
(b) Silversmith's son.
(c) One of M'Vy's brothers.
(d) Silversmith's father.

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

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

12. What does the narrator say Dab is suffering from, in addition to illness?
(a) Birth defects.
(b) Congenital blood diseases.
(c) Food poisoning.
(d) Withdrawal.

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

14. Why does M'Vy say she kept quiet about her family?
(a) She says that she wanted to avoid repeating the patterns in the story.
(b) She says that wanted to beat fate.
(c) She says that she was afraid of what would happen if the children knew the stories.
(d) She says that she didn't understand what was happening at the time.

15. 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 gets angry.
(d) She does a dance in her slippers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does M'Vy tell Tree?

2. What does M'Vy say about Tree's vision of Brother Rush?

3. What does M'Vy try to ease Tree's mind about?

4. Where are Brother Rush and the other man going, when Tree was still in the back seat of the car?

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

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