Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tree imagine of Brother Rush's?
(a) His travels.
(b) His experience.
(c) His clothing.
(d) His speech.

2. Who does Tree realize she is, in this vision?
(a) The field.
(b) The baby.
(c) The house.
(d) The woman.

3. How does Tree characterize the man on the stoop?
(a) Intelligent looking and aloof.
(b) Good looking with freckles.
(c) A little bit odd, and sensitive looking.
(d) Dark-skinned and mournful-looking.

4. Why doesn't Tree appreciate Miss Pricherd's arrival?
(a) She always stays too long and asks too many questions.
(b) She always makes a big mess of things.
(c) She always invites all her friends over.
(d) She always eats all the food in the house.

5. How did Brother Rush die?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) In an accident at the plant.
(c) Illness.
(d) In a knife fight.

6. What makes the baby happy?
(a) Brother Rush.
(b) The sunlight.
(c) The insects in the field.
(d) The mother.

7. Where is Tree going, in her vision?
(a) To the house where her mother and Brother Rush lived.
(b) Aunt Binnie's house.
(c) To a place she doesn't know.
(d) Home.

8. What does M'Vy do to Tree?
(a) Gives him food.
(b) Comforts him.
(c) Scolds him.
(d) Hits him with a switch.

9. What is Tree like as a student?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) She lags.
(c) Excellent.
(d) Mediocre.

10. When does Chapter 5 begin?
(a) Saturday morning.
(b) Sunday night.
(c) Friday afternoon.
(d) Monday morning.

11. How long has Tree been sitting in the dark?
(a) Two hours.
(b) A few minutes.
(c) A few hours.
(d) Almost an hour.

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

13. Why doesn't Dab get up?
(a) He says that everything hurts.
(b) He is tired from being up all night.
(c) He is sick.
(d) He is lazy.

14. 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) Asks for food, and wonders when he can go home.
(d) Almost falls out of the window.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What snaps Tree back to the present?

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

(see the answer keys)

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