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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 happens when Tree goes to the little room?
(a) Brother Rush tells her more stories.
(b) Brother Rush is not there.
(c) She sees scenes from M'Vy's childhood.
(d) She sees Brother Rush's funeral.

2. How has M'Vy changed for the funeral?
(a) She seems to be relieved.
(b) She can't stop crying.
(c) She is guilt-ridden and miserable.
(d) She seems to have aged.

3. What does Miss Pricherd tell Tree?
(a) That the family will be moving.
(b) That Dab will always be with her.
(c) That Silversmith is going to move in and take care of her and M'Vy.
(d) That she is going to live with her now.

4. What does Tree want her mother to explain to her?
(a) Why she never told her about the accident.
(b) Why she hadn't prevented the accident.
(c) Why Dab was so limited.
(d) Why Brother Rush had died.

5. How does Miss Pricherd respond when Tree calls her by her nickname?
(a) She makes up a similarly fanciful name for Tree.
(b) She chases Tree around the house.
(c) She gets angry.
(d) She does a dance in her slippers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tree realize when she is in the vision?

5. What does Tree realize after she packs her things?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Tree's relationship with Silversmith.

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

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

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

5. What prompts Tree to decide to leave home?

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

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

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

9. What ails Brother Rush?

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

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