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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Tree?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Teresa.
(c) Teresa's teacher.
(d) Teresa's brother.

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

3. Whose funeral does Dab say he attended, while Tree was in the vision in the car?
(a) Uncle Willie's.
(b) Brother Rush's.
(c) M'Vy's.
(d) Miss Pricherd's.

4. What does Tree asks M'Vy about Dab?
(a) Whether he is going to die.
(b) Whether he had a disease.
(c) What made him so sick and slow.
(d) Whether he was hit as a baby.

5. Why does Tree say she turns on the light in the little room?
(a) Because she doesn't want M'Vy to be scared.
(b) Because Brother Rush is on his way.
(c) Because she is terrified.
(d) Because she doesn't want there to be any question about what she sees.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tree know Brother Rush's name?

2. Where is Dab when Tree and M'Vy are in the little room?

3. Why doesn't Tree appreciate Miss Pricherd's arrival?

4. What is Miss Pricherd there to do?

5. What does Tree really resent about Miss Pricherd?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tree know anything about Brother Rush?

2. Describe the room in which Tree discovers Brother Rush.

3. What is Tree and Dab's relationship with their mother like?

4. How does "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush" begin?

5. What interrupts Tree's first experience with Brother Rush?

6. What does Tree see when she is transported back to the past?

7. What happens that wakes Tree up in the middle of the night?

8. What does Tree tell Miss Pricherd about what she saw?

9. How is Dab described?

10. Describe Tree's relationship with Miss Pricherd.

(see the answer keys)

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