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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 wakes Tree up, after she decides to run away?
(a) Miss Pricherd is cleaning Dab's room.
(b) Her mother and Silversmith are getting ready to go out.
(c) She hears an odd noise from the little room.
(d) She thought she heard Dab calling her.

2. What does Tree realize when she is in the vision?
(a) That M'Vy was not responsible.
(b) That Brother Rush is a figment of her imagination.
(c) That it's possible to communicate with the dead.
(d) That Dab is dead.

3. What did Dab die of?
(a) The simple flu.
(b) Respiratory paralysis.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Withdrawal.

4. What does Tree feel when the note on the fridge makes her laugh?
(a) Guilty for not being with Dab in the hospital.
(b) Relief, as if now things will be alright.
(c) Guilty for laughing while Dab is sick.
(d) Delighted by Silversmith's sense of humor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stories does Don tell Tree?

2. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree knows details of Brother Rush's story?

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

4. What does Tree notice as being odd when she and Dab and Brother Rush get back in the car?

5. What does M'Vy say she should have done?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Tree get upset when M'Vy says that it is time to go out?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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