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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Miss Pricherd ask Tree to wait for?
(a) A week has gone by.
(b) Her mother's business takes off.
(c) Dab's funeral.
(d) Her mother can get home.

3. What does Tree think when she finds pills in Dab's room?
(a) That he doesn't need the pills.
(b) That he is a junkie.
(c) That he was born with a birth defect.
(d) That he is terminally ill.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

9. How does Dab seem to be doing, when Tree, M'Vy and Silversmith look into his room?
(a) A little worse.
(b) About the same.
(c) Better.
(d) He is near death.

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

11. 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 driving slowly and delicately.
(c) Brother Rush is telling stories Tree doesn't understand.
(d) Brother Rush won't talk with them.

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

13. What did Dab die of?
(a) The simple flu.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Respiratory paralysis.
(d) Withdrawal.

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

15. What does M'Vy object to the things Tree tells her about he funeral?
(a) It isn't what Dab would want.
(b) It was what Tree wanted, not what Dab wanted.
(c) That Dab wouldn't notice what they did.
(d) She doesn't have the money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What wakes Tree up, after she decides to run away?

3. What does Tree tell M'Vy about Brother Rush?

4. How has M'Vy changed for the funeral?

5. What did Silversmith leave for Tree?

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