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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 is Tree's nightmare?
(a) That the ground opened up beneath her and Dab.
(b) That she fell from a high wire.
(c) That M'Vy could not save her and Dab from falling.
(d) That she could not keep Dab from falling from a high wire.

2. What threat does Tree make, when she and M'Vy disagree about the funeral?
(a) To hurt M'Vy.
(b) To tell Silversmith about M'Vy.
(c) To run away.
(d) To hurt herself.

3. What does M'Vy admit to, after Tree finds pills in Dab's room?
(a) Being in denial.
(b) Hating herself.
(c) Despairing about ever helping Dab.
(d) Hating Dab.

4. What does Tree realize after she packs her things?
(a) Dab would want her to stay.
(b) This is only temporary, but M'Vy loves her.
(c) She likes Silversmith a lot and wants him as a step-father.
(d) She doesn't have anywhere to go.

5. What does M'Vy say about Tree's vision of Brother Rush?
(a) She believes her.
(b) She believes the child is possessed.
(c) She doesn't understand what's happening.
(d) She thinks Tree is making everything up.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tree get from the car accident back to the little room?

2. Where does M'Vy say Dab is, when she finds Tree again?

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

4. What does M'Vy tell Tree?

5. What is M'Vy worried the doctors will think when they see Dab?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dab's admittance into the hospital.

2. What does Tree learn from M'Vy about Dab's condition?

3. How is the relationship with Tree and Miss Pricherd different at the end of the book?

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

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

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

7. Describe Tree's discovery of Dab's death.

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

9. What is Tree's nightmare?

10. What are Tree's feelings about Dab's sickness?

(see the answer keys)

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