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

2. Why does Tree tell Dab to get up?
(a) She wants time to herself.
(b) Miss Pricherd has to clean his room.
(c) They have to go shopping.
(d) It is time for his lessons.

3. What did Tree do in this private place?
(a) Fantasize.
(b) Write.
(c) Cry.
(d) Draw.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Dab cry?

2. How does Tree characterize the man on the stoop?

3. What makes the baby happy?

4. What makes Tree run out of her little room?

5. What feeling does Tree get about the woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Brother Rush as Tree first sees him.

2. What is Tree like as a student, and as a person?

3. How does Tree know anything about Brother Rush?

4. What does Miss Pricherd see in the little room when Tree takes her back there?

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

6. Describe Tree's experience at Binnie's house.

7. What is Tree as a cook?

8. How is Dab described?

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

10. What happens when Tree finally gets to talk to her mother?

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