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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Dab?
(a) 19.
(b) 17.
(c) 13.
(d) 15.

2. Who notices Teresa?
(a) Her teachers.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Boys on the corner.

3. What does Brother Rush do at night?
(a) Sing in a nightclub.
(b) Play jazz.
(c) Deliver numbers.
(d) Work at a meat packing plant.

4. What is M'Vy scared by?
(a) Miss Pricherd's nervousness.
(b) The darkness in the house.
(c) Brother Rush's driving.
(d) Dab's health.

5. For how long at a time will Tree and her brother be left along?
(a) Hardly any time at all.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Hours.
(d) Days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree cook for Dab and herself?

2. What does Tree imagine of Brother Rush's?

3. What does Tree feel about Miss Pricherd's arrival?

4. What does Tree do for Dab?

5. How does the narrator characterize Tree's feeling, standing in the little room with Brother Rush?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tree know anything about Brother Rush?

2. How do Tree and Dab wake up on Saturday morning?

3. Where is Tree transported to?

4. What does Tree tell Miss Pricherd about what she saw?

5. What does Tree know about the people she sees in this new place?

6. What makes the baby happy?

7. What happens that wakes Tree up in the middle of the night?

8. What happens when Tree finally gets to talk to her mother?

9. What happens when Tree and M'Vy talk about Dab?

10. Describe Brother Rush as Tree first sees him.

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