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

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

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

4. How does Tree approach the recognition that Brother Rush is her brother?
(a) She is afraid.
(b) She is incredulous.
(c) She wonders 'why me'.
(d) She is grateful for the knowledge.

5. Who is Dab?
(a) Tree's cousin.
(b) The man on the stoop.
(c) Tree's teacher.
(d) Tree's brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose eyes did Tree realize she was seeing through?

2. What does Tree reach for when she wakes up in the middle of the night?

3. What does one of Tree's teachers suggest she take?

4. What feeling does Tree get about the woman?

5. How does Teresa respond to being noticed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Tree transported to?

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

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

4. Describe Brother Rush as Tree first sees him.

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

6. How does the narrator describe the atmosphere in Tree's house?

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

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

9. What does Dab experience when Tree takes him to the little room?

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

(see the answer keys)

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