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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. Why doesn't Tree appreciate Miss Pricherd's arrival?
(a) She always invites all her friends over.
(b) She always stays too long and asks too many questions.
(c) She always eats all the food in the house.
(d) She always makes a big mess of things.

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

3. What broken thing makes Tree wonder why broken things aren't fixed?
(a) The doorknob.
(b) The window.
(c) The faucet.
(d) The banister on the stairs.

4. What does Tree reach for when she wakes up in the middle of the night?
(a) A flashlight.
(b) A knife.
(c) A whistle.
(d) Tear gas.

5. Whose eyes did Tree realize she was seeing through?
(a) Her grandmother's.
(b) A stranger's.
(c) Brother Rush's.
(d) Her mother's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree cook for Dab and herself?

2. Why doesn't Dab get up?

3. What is Miss Pricherd there to do?

4. Who is Dab?

5. How does the narrator characterize the rooms in Tree's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tree see when she is transported back to the past?

2. Where is Tree transported to?

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

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

5. What does Miss Pricherd see in the little room when Tree takes her back there?

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

7. What is Tree as a cook?

8. What is Tree like as a student, and as a person?

9. What does Dab experience when Tree takes him to the little room?

10. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere in Tree's house?

(see the answer keys)

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