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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who stays with Tree while M'Vy sees to Dab?
(a) A mother in the waiting room.
(b) No one.
(c) A nurse.
(d) Silversmith.

4. 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 goes to leave with Silversmith.
(c) M'Vy wants to leave Dab home alone.
(d) M'Vy doesn't believe her.

5. What does Miss Pricherd ask Tree to wait for?
(a) Her mother can get home.
(b) Dab's funeral.
(c) A week has gone by.
(d) Her mother's business takes off.

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

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

8. What does Silversmith learn about M'Vy as M'Vy tells stories to Tree?
(a) That she was married to Ken.
(b) That she had brothers.
(c) That Tree and Dab are her children.
(d) That Ken is still alive.

9. What does Miss Pricherd say will happen to Dab's things?
(a) They will be burned.
(b) They will be stored.
(c) They will be thrown away.
(d) They will go with Tree wherever she goes.

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

11. What happens when Tree and Dab walk around while Brother Rush is sleeping?
(a) Tree loses her socks.
(b) M'Vy shows up and gets angry.
(c) Dab has a seizure.
(d) Brother Rush gets sick.

12. Where does Tree ask Dab to take her?
(a) To the bathroom.
(b) To the park.
(c) To the car.
(d) Back home.

13. What does Tree feel when the note on the fridge makes her laugh?
(a) Guilty for laughing while Dab is sick.
(b) Delighted by Silversmith's sense of humor.
(c) Guilty for not being with Dab in the hospital.
(d) Relief, as if now things will be alright.

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

15. What does Tree tell M'Vy about the funeral?
(a) Where it should be held.
(b) What Dab wants for a tombstone.
(c) Who should be invited.
(d) Who should perform the service.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Miss Pricherd respond when Tree calls her by her nickname?

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

3. Who is Don?

4. What does Tree think when she finds pills in Dab's room?

5. What does M'Vy tell Tree?

(see the answer keys)

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