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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 was NOT stored in the room Tree claimed as her private place?

2. How old is Dab?

3. How old is Teresa?

4. What is Tree like as a student?

5. Where does Tree look for Miss Pricherd first?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Tree know about the people she sees in this new place?

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

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

6. Where does brother come from, and go off to?

7. What happens when Tree and M'Vy talk about Dab?

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

9. What does Dab see when he comes into the little room?

10. Describe Brother Rush as Tree first sees him.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In a couple of places, characters do little dances when they are happy, or can't find words for their feelings. What do characters express without words, in "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush"? What would they say if they had words--can you paraphrase what they are saying? Why do you think Virginia Hamilton gave them gestures instead of words?

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

Do you think Tree will continue to go back into the past -- and into her own childhood -- from the little room? Or was her trip back into the past just part of her growing up and becoming the person she is in the present?

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