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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. How does the narrator characterize the relationship between Tree and Don?

2. How does Dab seem to be doing, when Tree, M'Vy and Silversmith look into his room?

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

4. What threat does Tree make, when she and M'Vy disagree about the funeral?

5. What happens when Tree and Dab walk around while Brother Rush is sleeping?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Tree's nightmare?

2. What is Tree and M'Vy's relationship like, at the end of the book?

3. Describe Tree's relationship with Silversmith.

4. What does Tree see from the back seat of the car, when no one knows she is there?

5. Describe Tree's discovery of Dab's death.

6. What new information does Tree learn about Brother Rush's death, when they are checking in at the hospital?

7. What happens when M'Vy follows Tree into the little room?

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

9. What happens when Miss Pricherd cleans Dab's room?

10. What does M'Vy tell Tree about her brothers and Dab?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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