View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree knows details of Brother Rush's story?
(a) She is angry.
(b) She is shocked.
(c) She is confused and upset.
(d) She is not surprised.

2. What does Miss Pricherd say will happen to Dab's things?
(a) They will be thrown away.
(b) They will be burned.
(c) They will go with Tree wherever she goes.
(d) They will be stored.

3. What is M'Vy worried the doctors will think when they see Dab?
(a) That he is hooked on drugs.
(b) That M'Vy won't be able to afford to pay for his care.
(c) That she is unfit as a mother.
(d) That he will die.

4. What does Miss Pricherd ask Tree to wait for?
(a) Dab's funeral.
(b) A week has gone by.
(c) Her mother's business takes off.
(d) Her mother can get home.

5. How does the narrator characterize Silversmith?
(a) An older version of Brother Rush.
(b) A large man with gentle, soft features.
(c) A slender man, beautiful and aloof, like Brother Rush.
(d) A large man with a graying afro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does M'Vy say she should have done?

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

3. What does Tree say Brother Rush's hands are full of?

4. What does M'Vy object to the things Tree tells her about he funeral?

5. What does Silversmith learn about M'Vy as M'Vy tells stories to Tree?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when M'Vy follows Tree into the little room?

4. What makes Tree think of Dab when she is at home alone?

5. What prompts Tree to decide to leave home?

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

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

8. Describe Dab's admittance into the hospital.

9. What does M'Vy tell Tree about her brothers and Dab?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 866 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample