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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Red describe their gender?
(a) Both male and female.
(b) Gender-free.
(c) Neither male nor female.
(d) Non-binary.

2. Red says that Samar has served as a reminder that there is beauty in what?
(a) Love.
(b) Stillness.
(c) Silence.
(d) Isolation.

3. Bongo offer to "make a deposit" (49) on the head of the lanky boy for carving into Red's trunk for what length of time?
(a) Every hour for a day.
(b) Every week for a month.
(c) Every day for a year.
(d) Every day for a month.

4. What color cloth does Samar use when she first ties a wish to Red's branch?
(a) Purple.
(b) Red.
(c) Pink.
(d) White.

5. The people who visit Red on the first day of a particular month every year are there to attach objects symbolizing their what?
(a) Trials.
(b) Tribulations.
(c) Sorrows.
(d) Hopes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the level of difficulty involved when talking to trees?

2. When Red announces to the reader in Chapter 7 that they are "not just a tree," (23) what else do they say they are?

3. How many hollows in total does Red have?

4. What harmful act do woodpeckers perform in relation to Red?

5. What adjective does Red apply to botanists who "study the lives of plants all day" (17)?

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