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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 Don do over dinner?
(a) Help Tree reconcile with M'Vy.
(b) Flirt with Tree.
(c) Ignore Tree.
(d) Whisper jokes to Tree.

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

3. What does M'Vy tell Tree to do?
(a) Do her homework and be a good girl.
(b) Make a cad for her brother.
(c) Pray.
(d) Walk to the hospital.

4. What makes Tree erupt and scream at M'Vy and Silversmith?
(a) M'Vy wants to leave Dab home alone.
(b) M'Vy goes to leave with Silversmith.
(c) M'Vy treats her as a child in front of Silversmith.
(d) M'Vy doesn't believe her.

5. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Tree and Don?
(a) They bristle at each other.
(b) They become friends slowly.
(c) They hit it off.
(d) They are wary and standoffish toward each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say M'Vy feels when she takes care of Dab?

2. What is Tree's response when M'Vy comes home?

3. What does Tree recognize as soon as she sees Silversmith and M'Vy together?

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

5. How does the narrator characterize Silversmith?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is Dab described when Tree visits him in chapter 11?

5. How is Silversmith described?

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

7. What does Tree learn when she sees Brother Rush after Dab's death?

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

9. Describe Brother Rush's house, when Brother Rush takes Tree and Dab there.

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

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