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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does M'Vy ring the bell?
(a) To give Tree warning that she's coming up.
(b) The lock doesn't work.
(c) Her hands are full.
(d) She lost her keys.

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

4. What is Tree afraid of?
(a) Taking care of Dab by herself.
(b) What Miss Pricherd saw.
(c) Going into her mind and getting trapped there.
(d) Dab getting sick and dying.

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

6. Where is Dab when Tree and M'Vy are in the little room?
(a) In bed.
(b) In the doorway.
(c) In the living room reading.
(d) In the kitchen.

7. What does one of Tree's teachers suggest she take?
(a) A test to qualify for a scholarship.
(b) Advanced classes.
(c) Vocational courses.
(d) Some time off.

8. What makes Tree realize that Brother Rush is a ghost?
(a) He cannot speak.
(b) He is translucent.
(c) He is standing in the middle of a table.
(d) He vaporizes.

9. Which literary term describes the dialogue?
(a) Transcription.
(b) Dialect.
(c) Personification.
(d) Characterization.

10. How old is Teresa?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Sixteen.

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

12. What sound woke Tree?
(a) Brother Rush appearing beside her.
(b) Her own screams in a dream.
(c) Dab's cries.
(d) M'Vy putting her purse down.

13. What does the man on the stoop remind Tree of?
(a) A fighter.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A do-wah singer.
(d) A blues musician.

14. How does Tree broach the subject of Brother Rush?
(a) She says she saw him.
(b) She asks M'Vy if she believes in ghosts.
(c) She asks straight out what happened to him.
(d) She describes him as if he were a stranger.

15. How is "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush" narrated?
(a) Third person limited.
(b) Third person omniscient.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Miss Pricherd there to do?

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

3. What does Tree imagine of Brother Rush's?

4. What doe Brother Rush do to Dab, in Tree's vision?

5. Where does Tree look for Miss Pricherd first?

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