2. What does Tree feel about Miss Pricherd's arrival?
(a) She is not happy.
(b) She is relieved.
(c) She is afraid.
(d) She is impatient.

3. What did Tree do in this private place?
(a) Fantasize.
(b) Write.
(c) Cry.
(d) Draw.

4. Where does Tree go back to?
(a) A baseball game.
(b) Brother Rush's bar.
(c) Brother Rush's Buick.
(d) M'Vy's old house.

5. How does the narrator characterize Dab's intellectual power?
(a) Curious.
(b) Acute.
(c) Limited.
(d) Restless.

6. Where is Dab when Tree and M'Vy are in the little room?
(a) In bed.
(b) In the doorway.
(c) In the living room reading.
(d) In the kitchen.

7. What is M'Vy scared by?
(a) Brother Rush's driving.
(b) The darkness in the house.
(c) Dab's health.
(d) Miss Pricherd's nervousness.

8. What does Tree reach for when she wakes up in the middle of the night?
(a) A flashlight.
(b) A whistle.
(c) Tear gas.
(d) A knife.

9. Who does Tree always want to be held by?
(a) Dab.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Brother Rush.

10. Why doesn't Tree tell Dab what she saw?
(a) She wants to keep it secret.
(b) She isn't sure what happened, herself.
(c) He won't understand.
(d) She promised Brother Rush not to tell.

11. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Tree and Dab?
(a) They respect each other's privacy.
(b) They help each other with everything.
(c) They ignore each other as much as possible.
(d) They finish each other's sentences.

12. What was NOT stored in the room Tree claimed as her private place?
(a) Her father's things.
(b) Old shoes.
(c) Comic books.
(d) A broken TV.

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

14. How does the narrator characterize the rooms in Tree's house?
(a) Tiny.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Filthy.
(d) Haunted.

15. What does one of Tree's teachers suggest she take?
(a) Vocational courses.
(b) A test to qualify for a scholarship.
(c) Advanced classes.
(d) Some time off.