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

2. How does Teresa respond to being noticed?
(a) She clutches her books to her.
(b) She pretends she is not noticed.
(c) She screams and runs away.
(d) She calls back rowdily.

3. Who notices Teresa?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her teachers.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Boys on the corner.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does M'Vy ring the bell?

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

5. What does one of Tree's teachers suggest she take?

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