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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. How does Red describe their gender?
(a) Non-binary.
(b) Gender-free.
(c) Neither male nor female.
(d) Both male and female.
2. What does the narrator say about the level of difficulty involved when talking to trees?
(a) It takes time.
(b) It takes a special voice.
(c) It is easy.
(d) It is hard.
3. What adjective does Red use to describe the way in which the lanky boy carves into Red's trunk?
(a) Mean.
(b) Determined.
(c) Loving.
(d) Absentminded.
4. When Red announces to the reader in Chapter 7 that they are "not just a tree," (23) what else do they say they are?
(a) A home.
(b) A puzzle.
(c) A jungle gym.
(d) An enigma.
5. Red states that many crows name themselves after their affinity for creating what type of sensory output?
(a) Sounds.
(b) Smells.
(c) Sights.
(d) Tastes.
Short Answer Questions
1. What action does Bongo regularly take when she is thinking about a difficult problem?
2. What word is revealed to have been carved into Red's trunk by the lanky boy?
3. What term does Red use to describe Samar?
4. Where does Bongo keep her secret stash of objects?
5. Red is located nearby what type of institution?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Applegate go about introducing scientific facts in a way that will interest young readers?
2. Red explains that hollows in trees occur for all sorts of reasons. Name five.
3. What examples does Red provide when claiming that "There's a lot of give-and-take in nature" (25)?
4. What happens every year on Wishing Day?
5. Discuss the significance of Wishtree's dedication and epigraph.
6. In what parts of the world do people observe a tradition involving a wishing tree?
7. At what three sights does Samar often gaze as she sits beneath Red's boughs?
8. How does Red surmise that the carving by the lanky boy is "meant to hurt" (43)?
9. In what way is the sound motif an important element of Chapter 10?
10. What activities does Red wonder about experiencing and why?
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