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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does M'Vy say she kept quiet about her family?
(a) She says that wanted to beat fate.
(b) She says that she wanted to avoid repeating the patterns in the story.
(c) She says that she was afraid of what would happen if the children knew the stories.
(d) She says that she didn't understand what was happening at the time.

2. Where does Brother Rush take Tree and Dab?
(a) To the park.
(b) To a jazz club.
(c) To a baseball game.
(d) To his house.

3. For how long at a time will Tree and her brother be left along?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Days.
(c) Hardly any time at all.
(d) Hours.

4. What does Tree realize after she packs her things?
(a) Dab would want her to stay.
(b) She doesn't have anywhere to go.
(c) She likes Silversmith a lot and wants him as a step-father.
(d) This is only temporary, but M'Vy loves her.

5. What does M'Vy object to the things Tree tells her about he funeral?
(a) That Dab wouldn't notice what they did.
(b) She doesn't have the money.
(c) It isn't what Dab would want.
(d) It was what Tree wanted, not what Dab wanted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man on the stoop remind Tree of?

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

3. What does M'Vy say about Tree's vision of Brother Rush?

4. What makes Tree erupt and scream at M'Vy and Silversmith?

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

(see the answer key)

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