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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. What did Tree do in this private place?
(a) Fantasize.
(b) Cry.
(c) Draw.
(d) Write.

2. What makes Tree realize that Brother Rush is a ghost?
(a) He is standing in the middle of a table.
(b) He is translucent.
(c) He vaporizes.
(d) He cannot speak.

3. Why doesn't Tree tell Dab what she saw?
(a) He won't understand.
(b) She promised Brother Rush not to tell.
(c) She wants to keep it secret.
(d) She isn't sure what happened, herself.

4. Where does Brother Rush take Tree and Dab?
(a) To the park.
(b) To his house.
(c) To a baseball game.
(d) To a jazz club.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Miss Pricherd opens the door to Tree's little room?

2. How does Dab make Brother Rush angry, in Tree's vision?

3. Where does Tree feel like she is transported to?

4. When does Chapter 5 begin?

5. How does the narrator characterize Dab's intellectual power?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tree as a cook?

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

3. How is Brother Rush's death described?

4. Describe Brother Rush as Tree first sees him.

5. How is Dab feeling when Tree goes to wake him up?

6. How is Dab described?

7. What do Tree and Dab's visions foreshadow?

8. Describe Tree's experience at Binnie's house.

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

10. Describe Tree's relationship with Miss Pricherd.

(see the answer keys)

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