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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dab seem to be doing, when Tree, M'Vy and Silversmith look into his room?
(a) He is near death.
(b) A little worse.
(c) About the same.
(d) Better.

2. What wakes Tree up, after she decides to run away?
(a) Miss Pricherd is cleaning Dab's room.
(b) Her mother and Silversmith are getting ready to go out.
(c) She thought she heard Dab calling her.
(d) She hears an odd noise from the little room.

3. 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 didn't understand what was happening at the time.
(c) She says that she was afraid of what would happen if the children knew the stories.
(d) She says that wanted to beat fate.

4. What does the narrator say Dab is suffering from, in addition to illness?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) Birth defects.
(c) Congenital blood diseases.
(d) Withdrawal.

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

6. What does Tree say Brother Rush's hands are full of?
(a) Tenderness.
(b) Power.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Pain.

7. How old is the Brother Rush driving in the car?
(a) A teenager.
(b) Middle aged.
(c) A child around ten.
(d) Twenties.

8. What is Tree's nightmare?
(a) That she fell from a high wire.
(b) That M'Vy could not save her and Dab from falling.
(c) That the ground opened up beneath her and Dab.
(d) That she could not keep Dab from falling from a high wire.

9. What does M'Vy hint is wrong with Dab?
(a) A blood illness.
(b) A childhood accident.
(c) A birth defect.
(d) Religious retribution for her sins.

10. How does Tree get from the car accident back to the little room?
(a) She goes through the trunk.
(b) She climbs under the car and is back in the room.
(c) She blacks out in the accident.
(d) She closes her eyes.

11. What does M'Vy admit to, after Tree finds pills in Dab's room?
(a) Hating herself.
(b) Despairing about ever helping Dab.
(c) Hating Dab.
(d) Being in denial.

12. Who is driving with Brother Rush?
(a) Dab.
(b) M'Vy.
(c) Brother Rush's girlfriend.
(d) Tree's father.

13. What does M'Vy say she should have done?
(a) Stopped Dab from taking drugs.
(b) Taken Dab to the hospital much sooner.
(c) Have all the children tested.
(d) Had Dab inoculated.

14. What does Tree realize when she is in the vision?
(a) That it's possible to communicate with the dead.
(b) That Brother Rush is a figment of her imagination.
(c) That Dab is dead.
(d) That M'Vy was not responsible.

15. What is Miss Pricherd doing, when Tree sees her?
(a) Throwing out Dab's things.
(b) Cleaning the kitchen.
(c) Starting to box things up so M'Vy and Tree can move.
(d) Cleaning Dab's room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What condition does M'Vy say Dab is in when she calls Tree at home?

2. What does Miss Pricherd ask Tree to wait for?

3. What could Tree tell by the way M'Vy walked into the house, at the beginning of Chapter 15?

4. What detail does Tree seize on in Brother Rush's story?

5. What are Tree's feelings in the hospital?

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