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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Don do over dinner?
(a) Whisper jokes to Tree.
(b) Help Tree reconcile with M'Vy.
(c) Ignore Tree.
(d) Flirt with Tree.

2. What is M'Vy's reaction when Tree tells her what she realized about Brother Rush?
(a) She does not believe her.
(b) She gets angry at Tree as if Tree were Brother Rush.
(c) She cannot believe in a universe that would allow a ghost to talk to a girl.
(d) She knows that Tree is wrong.

3. How does the narrator characterize Silversmith?
(a) A large man with gentle, soft features.
(b) A slender man, beautiful and aloof, like Brother Rush.
(c) An older version of Brother Rush.
(d) A large man with a graying afro.

4. Where does Tree say her knowledge about family came from?
(a) M'Vy.
(b) Her own imagination.
(c) Books.
(d) TV.

5. What detail does Tree seize on in Brother Rush's story?
(a) Other car accidents in the family.
(b) Other family members.
(c) Other brothers.
(d) Other disappearing fathers.

6. What does the narrator say is the result of Tree describing details of Brother Rush's accident?
(a) It makes the ghost more real.
(b) It makes Tree distrust her mother.
(c) It makes M'Vy distrust her.
(d) It unnerves M'Vy.

7. What does Tree tell Miss Pricherd?
(a) That Dab's room is haunted.
(b) That she is taking Dab's room for herself.
(c) That she is leaving.
(d) That she can't move in.

8. What does Miss Pricherd tell Tree?
(a) That she is going to live with her now.
(b) That Dab will always be with her.
(c) That Silversmith is going to move in and take care of her and M'Vy.
(d) That the family will be moving.

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

10. What makes Tree erupt and scream at M'Vy and Silversmith?
(a) M'Vy treats her as a child in front of Silversmith.
(b) M'Vy doesn't believe her.
(c) M'Vy goes to leave with Silversmith.
(d) M'Vy wants to leave Dab home alone.

11. What does Tree tell M'Vy about Brother Rush?
(a) How good he looked in his suit.
(b) How unhappy he was.
(c) How ready he was to die.
(d) How much he cared for her.

12. What does Tree see when she takes Brother Rush's gloves?
(a) Soft tender palms.
(b) Scars and sores on his hands.
(c) He is missing part of a finger.
(d) Tattoos on his hands.

13. How has M'Vy changed for the funeral?
(a) She can't stop crying.
(b) She seems to have aged.
(c) She is guilt-ridden and miserable.
(d) She seems to be relieved.

14. What does Tree insist on at the funeral?
(a) Lots of flowers.
(b) An open casket.
(c) No casket.
(d) A closed casket.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Don?

2. What does M'Vy tell Tree to do?

3. What did Dab die of?

4. What is Miss Pricherd doing, when Tree sees her?

5. What does Tree want her mother to explain to her?

(see the answer keys)

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