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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 does the narrator say is the result of Tree describing details of Brother Rush's accident?
(a) It makes the ghost more real.
(b) It unnerves M'Vy.
(c) It makes Tree distrust her mother.
(d) It makes M'Vy distrust her.

2. What does M'Vy tell Tree?
(a) That she and Silversmith have started a catering business.
(b) That Silversmith doesn't have money to pay for the funeral either.
(c) That Dab had told her that he didn't want a service.
(d) That she and Silversmith are getting married.

3. What are Tree's feelings in the hospital?
(a) She is curious about everything.
(b) She is afraid and upset.
(c) She is reassured by the doctors and nurses.
(d) She is frustrated by the long wait before anything can be done.

4. What is Tree's response when M'Vy comes home?
(a) She runs to the little room looking for Brother Rush.
(b) She tries to hide from her.
(c) She becomes hysterical.
(d) She tries to convince her how sick Dab is.

5. What does Tree realize when she is in the vision?
(a) That Dab is dead.
(b) That it's possible to communicate with the dead.
(c) That M'Vy was not responsible.
(d) That Brother Rush is a figment of her imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Tree and Dab walk around while Brother Rush is sleeping?

2. What threat does Tree make, when she and M'Vy disagree about the funeral?

3. What else does Tree realize in the vision?

4. What does M'Vy try to ease Tree's mind about?

5. What does M'Vy hint is wrong with Dab?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tree see from the back seat of the car, when no one knows she is there?

2. What happens when Miss Pricherd cleans Dab's room?

3. What does Tree tell M'Vy about Dab's funeral?

4. What does M'Vy tell Tree is wrong with Dab?

5. How does the narrator describe the relationship between M'Vy and Dab?

6. What does Tree see when she and M'Vy are transported back to the past together?

7. What does Tree see when she takes off Brother Rush's gloves?

8. What happens that Dab gets taken to the hospital?

9. What is Tree and M'Vy's relationship like, at the end of the book?

10. What new information does Tree learn about Brother Rush's death, when they are checking in at the hospital?

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