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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Tree whisked away to?
(a) A car with M'Vy and Dab.
(b) A house where her mother is working.
(c) Miss Pricherd's home.
(d) School.

2. What is Tree thinking about when she arrives home?
(a) Her hunger.
(b) The rainy weekend.
(c) Brother Rush.
(d) Her grades.

3. What is Tree afraid of?
(a) What Miss Pricherd saw.
(b) Going into her mind and getting trapped there.
(c) Taking care of Dab by herself.
(d) Dab getting sick and dying.

4. What sound woke Tree?
(a) Her own screams in a dream.
(b) M'Vy putting her purse down.
(c) Dab's cries.
(d) Brother Rush appearing beside her.

5. What explanation did Tree use to explain what Miss Pricherd saw?
(a) It was just light and shadows.
(b) It was a reflection from across the way.
(c) It was just her imagination.
(d) It was the ghost of her brother.

6. What is the woman holding who Tree sees in this place?
(a) Tools.
(b) A baby.
(c) A horse's reins.
(d) Fabric.

7. What does Tree check Dab for?
(a) Infection.
(b) Fever.
(c) Blood sugar.
(d) Jaundice.

8. What broken thing makes Tree wonder why broken things aren't fixed?
(a) The banister on the stairs.
(b) The faucet.
(c) The doorknob.
(d) The window.

9. How does Tree broach the subject of Brother Rush?
(a) She describes him as if he were a stranger.
(b) She says she saw him.
(c) She asks straight out what happened to him.
(d) She asks M'Vy if she believes in ghosts.

10. What does Dab do all day?
(a) Goes to school.
(b) Walks around the neighbor.
(c) Watches television.
(d) Stays in bed.

11. Where does Tree look for Miss Pricherd first?
(a) The little room.
(b) Her room.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) Dab's room.

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

13. What does Dab see when he comes to the little room with her?
(a) He doesn't see anything.
(b) He sees the woman with the baby.
(c) He sees Brother Rush.
(d) He sees Brother Rush's car accident.

14. What makes Tree run out of her little room?
(a) She wants to get someone to see Brother Rush.
(b) She wants her sweater.
(c) She wants something to eat.
(d) She feels ill.

15. How does the narrator characterize Tree's feeling, standing in the little room with Brother Rush?
(a) She feels like the laws of time and gravity do not apply to her.
(b) She feels like she is not herself any more.
(c) She feels like she is dreaming, and anything is possible.
(d) She feels transported to a faraway place.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Brother Rush take Tree and Dab?

2. What does Tree see when she returns to the room?

3. What snaps Tree back to the present?

4. Who else does Tree play with, in this vision?

5. What is Brother Rush holding in his hand?

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