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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dab die of?
(a) Withdrawal.
(b) Respiratory paralysis.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) The simple flu.

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

3. What does Tree think when she finds pills in Dab's room?
(a) That he doesn't need the pills.
(b) That he is a junkie.
(c) That he was born with a birth defect.
(d) That he is terminally ill.

4. How does the narrator say M'Vy feels when she takes care of Dab?
(a) More desperate.
(b) Less guilty.
(c) More miserable.
(d) More concerned.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does M'Vy try to ease Tree's mind about?

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

3. What makes Tree erupt and scream at M'Vy and Silversmith?

4. What does Tree call Miss Pricherd?

5. What does Tree say Brother Rush's hands are full of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tree see when she takes off Brother Rush's gloves?

2. What are Tree's feelings about Dab's sickness?

3. What does Tree learn from M'Vy about Dab's condition?

4. Why does Tree get upset when M'Vy says that it is time to go out?

5. What does M'Vy say when Tree and Dab tell her about their experiences with Brother Rush?

6. How is the relationship with Tree and Miss Pricherd different at the end of the book?

7. Describe Dab's admittance into the hospital.

8. Describe Brother Rush's house, when Brother Rush takes Tree and Dab there.

9. What does Tree tell M'Vy about Dab's funeral?

10. What does Tree see when she and M'Vy are transported back to the past together?

(see the answer keys)

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