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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is M'Vy scared by?

2. Why doesn't Dab get up?

3. What does Tree check Dab for?

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

5. What feeling does Tree get about the woman?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Tree's relationship with Miss Pricherd.

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

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

7. What happens to Tree when she is cooking?

8. How does the narrator describe Brother Rush's driving?

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

10. Describe Brother Rush as Tree first sees him.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Tree get in return for the loss of her brother? Is she compensated, or does she simply lose him?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush" with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", another book in which children are transported into another world through a special portal.

Essay Topic 3

Why are M'Vy and Tree able to reconcile at the end of "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush"? What has changed that allows their relationship to go into the future?

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