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

3. Where are Brother Rush and the other man going, when Tree was still in the back seat of the car?
(a) A jazz club.
(b) Someone's house.
(c) A park.
(d) A baseball game.

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 say about Tree's vision of Brother Rush?
(a) She believes the child is possessed.
(b) She believes her.
(c) She doesn't understand what's happening.
(d) She thinks Tree is making everything up.

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

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

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

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

10. What does M'Vy tell Tree to do?
(a) Make a cad for her brother.
(b) Walk to the hospital.
(c) Do her homework and be a good girl.
(d) Pray.

11. What does Tree feel about Dab's illness?
(a) That it should be able to be cured.
(b) That it is revenge for Brother Rush's death.
(c) That it is an outrage.
(d) That it is her fault.

12. What do M'Vy, Tree and Silversmith have to do before they can see Dab?
(a) Go home and wait.
(b) A lot of paperwork.
(c) Wash their hands.
(d) Account for Dab's household conditions.

13. What is Tree's nightmare?
(a) That the ground opened up beneath her and Dab.
(b) That she fell from a high wire.
(c) That M'Vy could not save her and Dab from falling.
(d) That she could not keep Dab from falling from a high wire.

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

15. Who is driving with Brother Rush?
(a) M'Vy.
(b) Dab.
(c) Brother Rush's girlfriend.
(d) Tree's father.