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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 was M'Vy's experience in the little room?
(a) She saw the vision Dab had.
(b) She didn't see Brother Rush.
(c) She saw a different vision than either child.
(d) She saw the vision Tree had.

2. What does Tree feel about Dab's illness?
(a) That it should be able to be cured.
(b) That it is an outrage.
(c) That it is revenge for Brother Rush's death.
(d) That it is her fault.

3. What does M'Vy tell Tree Ken loved?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Dancing.

4. How old is the Brother Rush driving in the car?
(a) A teenager.
(b) A child around ten.
(c) Middle aged.
(d) Twenties.

5. How does Dab seem to be doing, when Tree, M'Vy and Silversmith look into his room?
(a) He is near death.
(b) About the same.
(c) A little worse.
(d) Better.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tree ask Dab to take her?

2. What detail does Tree seize on in Brother Rush's story?

3. What does the narrator say is the result of Tree describing details of Brother Rush's accident?

4. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Tree and Don?

5. What else does Tree realize in the vision?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What ails Brother Rush?

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

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

6. What is Tree's nightmare?

7. Describe Tree's relationship with Silversmith.

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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