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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Tree try to get Dab to follow her?
(a) Into the sunshine inside the vision.
(b) Into the house where M'Vy and Brother Rush lived.
(c) Into the streets.
(d) Into the wreckage of Brother Rush's car.

2. What answer does Brother Rush give to Tree's question?
(a) He does not answer.
(b) He says that he is going home.
(c) He says that she cannot help him.
(d) He tells Tree to help him.

3. What explanation did Tree use to explain what Miss Pricherd saw?
(a) It was just light and shadows.
(b) It was a reflection from across the way.
(c) It was just her imagination.
(d) It was the ghost of her brother.

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

5. How does the narrator characterize Dab's intellectual power?
(a) Restless.
(b) Limited.
(c) Curious.
(d) Acute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree give Miss Pricherd?

2. What feeling does Tree get about the woman?

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

4. What time of day does it always seem to be in Tree's house?

5. What does Tree do for Dab?

(see the answer key)

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