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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Tree feel like she is transported to?
(a) A ghetto.
(b) A farm field.
(c) A nice house with a yard.
(d) A factory at the turn of the century.

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

3. What did Tree do in this private place?
(a) Write.
(b) Fantasize.
(c) Draw.
(d) Cry.

4. For how long at a time will Tree and her brother be left along?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Hardly any time at all.
(c) Hours.
(d) Days.

5. How does the narrator say M'Vy's name was pronounced?
(a) Softly, with tenderness.
(b) Aggressively.
(c) Softly, with longing and melancholy.
(d) Assertively, with confidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT stored in the room Tree claimed as her private place?

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

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

4. What snaps Tree back to the present?

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

(see the answer key)

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