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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dab upset about at dinner?

2. What is Tree's response to the man on the stoop?

3. What does Tree really resent about Miss Pricherd?

4. What does Dab tell Tree that is meant to put her concerns to rest?

5. Whose eyes did Tree realize she was seeing through?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tree and Dab's relationship with their mother like?

2. What does Dab experience when Tree takes him to the little room?

3. What is Tree as a cook?

4. How is Dab feeling when Tree goes to wake him up?

5. What does Miss Pricherd see in the little room when Tree takes her back there?

6. Describe Tree's experience at Binnie's house.

7. How is Brother Rush's death described?

8. How is Dab described?

9. What does Tree know about the people she sees in this new place?

10. What happens to Tree when she is cooking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What do you think the author holds as hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she may be? What can you find out about her online or in research? Anchor your sketch with passages in the book.

Essay Topic 2

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Virginia Hamilton's writing in dialect? Does it make the story easier or harder to follow? Does it make you feel like the characters are more alive, or more like puppets? Where does the dialect really work? Where does it seem like it doesn't work as well?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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