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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 does Tree notice as being odd when she and Dab and Brother Rush get back in the car?
(a) Brother Rush keeps his hat on.
(b) Brother Rush is telling stories Tree doesn't understand.
(c) Brother Rush won't talk with them.
(d) Brother Rush is driving slowly and delicately.

2. What does Tree do when she sees her mother?
(a) Laughs joyfully.
(b) Runs out of the kitchen.
(c) Cries non-stop.
(d) Faints.

3. What does Tree tell Dab to do?
(a) Help her clean her room.
(b) His homework.
(c) Leave her alone.
(d) Take a bath.

4. What does Miss Pricherd do after opening the door?
(a) Goes to the kitchen.
(b) Rushes in.
(c) Falls to her knees.
(d) Nearly faints.

5. What feeling does Tree get about the woman?
(a) That the baby is Brother Rush.
(b) That she is the woman and the baby.
(c) That the baby is her mother.
(d) That she is the woman's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush" narrated?

2. How does the narrator characterize Dab's intellectual power?

3. What does Tree really resent about Miss Pricherd?

4. What does M'Vy apologize to Tree for?

5. What is Tree like as a student?

(see the answer key)

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