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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dab do in the vision Tree has?
(a) Lays in bed with aches and pains.
(b) Gets stuck head downward after trying to climb into the front seat of the car.
(c) Almost falls out of the window.
(d) Asks for food, and wonders when he can go home.

2. How does Tree approach the recognition that Brother Rush is her brother?
(a) She is grateful for the knowledge.
(b) She is incredulous.
(c) She is afraid.
(d) She wonders 'why me'.

3. What does M'Vy tell Tree?
(a) That she and Silversmith have started a catering business.
(b) That Silversmith doesn't have money to pay for the funeral either.
(c) That she and Silversmith are getting married.
(d) That Dab had told her that he didn't want a service.

4. What was M'Vy's experience in the little room?
(a) She saw the vision Dab had.
(b) She saw a different vision than either child.
(c) She didn't see Brother Rush.
(d) She saw the vision Tree had.

5. What happens when Miss Pricherd opens the door to Tree's little room?
(a) Nothing happens.
(b) Tree comes barging in.
(c) Tree screams.
(d) She sees Brother Rush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree feel about Dab's illness?

2. What is Teresa doing at the beginning of "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush"?

3. How does the narrator characterize M'Vy when she comes into the little room with Tree?

4. How does Dab seem to be doing, when Tree, M'Vy and Silversmith look into his room?

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

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