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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 she didn't understand what was happening at the time.
(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.

4. What makes Tree erupt and scream at M'Vy and Silversmith?
(a) M'Vy goes to leave with Silversmith.
(b) M'Vy wants to leave Dab home alone.
(c) M'Vy doesn't believe her.
(d) M'Vy treats her as a child in front of Silversmith.

5. What does Tree realize after talking with her mother?
(a) That she is being abandoned so her mother can go with Silversmith.
(b) That there is no forgiving what her mother has done, and she will have to live with it.
(c) That with Miss Pricherd in the house, she will have something like a family.
(d) That Silversmith will look after her now, and she can forgive her mother because things will change.

6. What does Tree tell M'Vy about Brother Rush?
(a) How good he looked in his suit.
(b) How much he cared for her.
(c) How ready he was to die.
(d) How unhappy he was.

7. Where does Tree ask Dab to take her?
(a) Back home.
(b) To the car.
(c) To the park.
(d) To the bathroom.

8. What does Miss Pricherd tell Tree?
(a) That she is going to live with her now.
(b) That Silversmith is going to move in and take care of her and M'Vy.
(c) That Dab will always be with her.
(d) That the family will be moving.

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

10. What does M'Vy do when Tree and Dab come back to the room from their visions?
(a) Distract them from what they've seen.
(b) Comfort them.
(c) Cook for them.
(d) Tell them stories.

11. What does Tree notice as being odd when she and Dab and Brother Rush get back in the car?
(a) Brother Rush is driving slowly and delicately.
(b) Brother Rush keeps his hat on.
(c) Brother Rush won't talk with them.
(d) Brother Rush is telling stories Tree doesn't understand.

12. What does Tree call Miss Pricherd?
(a) Mama.
(b) Grandma.
(c) Old Lady.
(d) Granny Pricherd.

13. What does M'Vy hint is wrong with Dab?
(a) A birth defect.
(b) A childhood accident.
(c) Religious retribution for her sins.
(d) A blood illness.

14. What could Tree tell by the way M'Vy walked into the house, at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) That Dab was getting better.
(b) That Dab was dead.
(c) That she was responsible for Dab's condition.
(d) That Dab was going to die.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does M'Vy tell Tree about Ken?

2. What did Dab die of?

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

4. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree tells her what she realized about Brother Rush?

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

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