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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Teresa doing at the beginning of "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush"?
(a) Her homework.
(b) Shopping with her mother.
(c) Walking home from school.
(d) Taking care of the brothers.

2. What does M'Vy admit to, after Tree finds pills in Dab's room?
(a) Hating Dab.
(b) Despairing about ever helping Dab.
(c) Being in denial.
(d) Hating herself.

3. What does Tree want her mother to explain to her?
(a) Why Dab was so limited.
(b) Why she never told her about the accident.
(c) Why she hadn't prevented the accident.
(d) Why Brother Rush had died.

4. Whose funeral does Dab say he attended, while Tree was in the vision in the car?
(a) Uncle Willie's.
(b) Miss Pricherd's.
(c) Brother Rush's.
(d) M'Vy's.

5. What does Tree realize when she is in the vision?
(a) That M'Vy was not responsible.
(b) That it's possible to communicate with the dead.
(c) That Brother Rush is a figment of her imagination.
(d) That Dab is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tree approach the recognition that Brother Rush is her brother?

2. What does Tree feel about Dab's illness?

3. Who is Dab?

4. How does Tree broach the subject of Brother Rush?

5. What explanation did Tree use to explain what Miss Pricherd saw?

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