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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 is Brother Rush holding in his hand?
(a) Car keys.
(b) A mirror-like object.
(c) A baby.
(d) A window frame.

2. Why doesn't Dab get up?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He says that everything hurts.
(c) He is lazy.
(d) He is tired from being up all night.

3. What is the woman holding who Tree sees in this place?
(a) Tools.
(b) Fabric.
(c) A horse's reins.
(d) A baby.

4. Who does Tree always want to be held by?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Brother Rush.
(d) Dab.

5. What is Tree afraid of?
(a) Taking care of Dab by herself.
(b) What Miss Pricherd saw.
(c) Dab getting sick and dying.
(d) Going into her mind and getting trapped there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Tree appreciate Miss Pricherd's arrival?

2. How does Tree know Brother Rush's name?

3. How does Tree characterize the man on the stoop?

4. Who is Dab?

5. What does Tree feel about Miss Pricherd's arrival?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere in Tree's house?

2. How does Tree know anything about Brother Rush?

3. What do Tree and Dab's visions foreshadow?

4. Describe the room in which Tree discovers Brother Rush.

5. What makes the baby happy?

6. What happens when Tree and M'Vy talk about Dab?

7. What does Tree tell Miss Pricherd about what she saw?

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

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

10. How does "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush" begin?

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