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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree asks M'Vy about Dab?

2. What answer does Brother Rush give to Tree's question?

3. How does the narrator characterize Tree's feeling, standing in the little room with Brother Rush?

4. What had Tree prayed before she took Miss Pricherd back to the little room again?

5. What does Tree cook for Dab and herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tree like as a student, and as a person?

2. How does Tree know anything about Brother Rush?

3. What does Dab see when he comes into the little room?

4. How do Tree and Dab wake up on Saturday morning?

5. How is Dab feeling when Tree goes to wake him up?

6. What does Miss Pricherd see in the little room when Tree takes her back there?

7. What happens when Tree finally gets to talk to her mother?

8. Where is Tree transported to?

9. What is Tree as a cook?

10. What happens that wakes Tree up in the middle of the night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

M'Vy tells Tree that she had not told her much about her family because she wanted to keep a closed fist to beat fate. Does Tree try to beat fate, or how does she try to deal with fate's effect on her life? Who else has techniques for dealing with fate? How successful do these other techniques seem to be?

Essay Topic 2

What are the rules for the alternate reality Tree travels to? Is it a dream, or is it really another time? Who else has the power to go back and forth? Do you think Tree will see Dab in her little room one day?

Essay Topic 3

What do you think Tree's daughter would see if she were to find a little room in her own house, twenty or thirty years into the future? Will Tree tell her daughter everything, do you think, or will she be open about the things she is ashamed of?

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