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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dab upset about at dinner?
(a) He is afraid M'Vy won't come home.
(b) His stomach hurts.
(c) He didn't know where Tree went when she was in the vision with Brother Rush.
(d) He is confused about Brother Rush.

2. Why doesn't Tree tell Dab what she saw?
(a) He won't understand.
(b) She promised Brother Rush not to tell.
(c) She isn't sure what happened, herself.
(d) She wants to keep it secret.

3. Where does Brother Rush take Tree and Dab?
(a) To the park.
(b) To a jazz club.
(c) To his house.
(d) To a baseball game.

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

5. What had Tree prayed before she took Miss Pricherd back to the little room again?
(a) That Brother Rush would have left a note.
(b) That Brother Rush would still be there.
(c) That Miss Pricherd would get Brother Rush to speak.
(d) That Brother Rush would be gone.

6. How does the narrator characterize Tree's feeling, standing in the little room with Brother Rush?
(a) She feels like the laws of time and gravity do not apply to her.
(b) She feels like she is not herself any more.
(c) She feels transported to a faraway place.
(d) She feels like she is dreaming, and anything is possible.

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

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

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

10. Who showed up by six p.m.?
(a) Miss Pricherd.
(b) M'Vy.
(c) Brother Rush.
(d) Silversmith.

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

12. What is the woman holding who Tree sees in this place?
(a) A baby.
(b) Fabric.
(c) A horse's reins.
(d) Tools.

13. What does Miss Pricherd do after opening the door?
(a) Nearly faints.
(b) Goes to the kitchen.
(c) Rushes in.
(d) Falls to her knees.

14. What is M'Vy scared by?
(a) Dab's health.
(b) Brother Rush's driving.
(c) The darkness in the house.
(d) Miss Pricherd's nervousness.

15. How does Dab make Brother Rush angry, in Tree's vision?
(a) He almost knocks Tree out of the car.
(b) He throws Tree's socks out the window.
(c) He tries to jump out of the car.
(d) He wets himself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Tree's response to the man on the stoop?

3. What does Dab do in the vision Tree has?

4. Who does Tree realize she is, in this vision?

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

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