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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tree thinking about when she arrives home?
(a) Her hunger.
(b) Her grades.
(c) The rainy weekend.
(d) Brother Rush.

2. How does the narrator characterize Tree's feeling, standing in the little room with Brother Rush?
(a) She feels like she is not herself any more.
(b) She feels like the laws of time and gravity do not apply to her.
(c) She feels like she is dreaming, and anything is possible.
(d) She feels transported to a faraway place.

3. What snaps Tree back to the present?
(a) She gets hungry.
(b) She is called by her mother.
(c) A breeze blows through.
(d) Dab comes into the room.

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

5. What does the man on the stoop remind Tree of?
(a) A blues musician.
(b) A fighter.
(c) A beggar.
(d) A do-wah singer.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long at a time will Tree and her brother be left along?

2. What does Tree's mother do for work?

3. How does the narrator say M'Vy's name was pronounced?

4. What did Tree do in this private place?

5. Where does Tree feel like she is transported to?

(see the answer key)

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