View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who else does Tree play with, in this vision?
(a) Her father.
(b) Dab.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Children she doesn't know.

4. What is Tree's response to the man on the stoop?
(a) She is smitten.
(b) She is afraid.
(c) She is sympathetic.
(d) She is intimidated.

5. What was NOT stored in the room Tree claimed as her private place?
(a) Comic books.
(b) A broken TV.
(c) Her father's things.
(d) Old shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Miss Pricherd there to do?

2. Where does Tree go back to?

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

4. What is M'Vy scared by?

5. Who does Tree always want to be held by?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 203 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample