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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Silversmith learn about M'Vy as M'Vy tells stories to Tree?
(a) That Ken is still alive.
(b) That she had brothers.
(c) That she was married to Ken.
(d) That Tree and Dab are her children.

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

4. Why has Brother Rush covered his face, in Tree's vision?
(a) To hide from M'Vy.
(b) To guard against sunlight.
(c) To hide his feelings.
(d) To keep from seeing things that upset him.

5. How old is the Brother Rush driving in the car?
(a) A teenager.
(b) Twenties.
(c) Middle aged.
(d) A child around ten.

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. Who stays with Tree while M'Vy sees to Dab?
(a) Silversmith.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A mother in the waiting room.
(d) No one.

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

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

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

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

12. What does M'Vy tell Tree Ken loved?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Fishing.

13. What does M'Vy apologize to Tree for?
(a) Not introducing Silversmith to her earlier.
(b) Not telling her important things about the past.
(c) Leaving Dab with her.
(d) Not knowing what to do about Dab.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does M'Vy know will happen when she takes Dab to the hospital?

5. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree knows details of Brother Rush's story?

(see the answer keys)

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