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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. What does Dab see when he comes to the little room with her?
(a) He sees Brother Rush's car accident.
(b) He doesn't see anything.
(c) He sees Brother Rush.
(d) He sees the woman with the baby.

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

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

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

5. What explanation did Tree use to explain what Miss Pricherd saw?
(a) It was a reflection from across the way.
(b) It was just light and shadows.
(c) It was just her imagination.
(d) It was the ghost of her brother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Tree approach the recognition that Brother Rush is her brother?

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

4. What does Tree check Dab for?

5. Who is Tree?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Tree and Dab wake up on Saturday morning?

2. Describe the first time Tree sees Brother Rush.

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

4. How does Tree know anything about Brother Rush?

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

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

7. What does Miss Pricherd see in the little room?

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

9. What do Tree and Dab's visions foreshadow?

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

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