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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 causes the car accident that kills Brother Rush?
(a) Another car.
(b) A child in the road.
(c) A dog in the road.
(d) A bicycle in the road.

2. What does M'Vy apologize to Tree for?
(a) Not having had her tested.
(b) Years of neglect.
(c) Not being a good mother.
(d) All the things she has done.

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

4. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree tells her what she realized about Brother Rush?
(a) She does not believe her.
(b) She gets angry at Tree as if Tree were Brother Rush.
(c) She knows that Tree is wrong.
(d) She cannot believe in a universe that would allow a ghost to talk to a girl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does M'Vy know will happen when she takes Dab to the hospital?

2. How old is the Brother Rush driving in the car?

3. What does the narrator say Dab is suffering from, in addition to illness?

4. What does Miss Pricherd tell Tree?

5. How does the narrator say M'Vy has always treated Dab?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Tree's relationship with Silversmith.

3. What is Tree's nightmare?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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