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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 word is used to refer to birds such as crows, jays, magpies, and ravens?
(a) Commids.
(b) Corrids.
(c) Collids.
(d) Connids.

2. What sort of utterance from a crow does Red describe as "unmistakable" (37)?
(a) A giggle.
(b) A sneeze.
(c) A sigh.
(d) A snort.

3. The boy named Stephen lives in a house painted what color?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

4. What kind of tree that lives in Los Angeles insists on being called Karma?
(a) A palm tree.
(b) A fig tree.
(c) An apple tree.
(d) A mulberry tree.

5. How many hollows in total does Red have?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Red says that most people who visit them are kind folks who are careful not to take what action?

2. The people who visit Red on the first day of a particular month every year are there to attach objects symbolizing their what?

3. On which part of Samar's body does Bongo begin to sit?

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

5. Red states that the more frequently someone listens, the more often they take what action?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss one major conflict present within your reading of the novel Wishtree so far.

2. How do Red and Bongo act as character foils for one another?

3. At what three sights does Samar often gaze as she sits beneath Red's boughs?

4. What kinds of illustrations are included in the first seven chapters of the novel and for what purpose?

5. Describe Red's several hollows, explaining their origins and their benefits.

6. Red explains that hollows in trees occur for all sorts of reasons. Name five.

7. What is ironic about the expression on the lanky boy's face as he defaces Red's trunk?

8. How does Applegate go about introducing scientific facts in a way that will interest young readers?

9. Discuss an instance when Applegate uses a simile to send a message about time.

10. What negative effects does it have upon a tree to carve into it, according to Red?

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