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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. Who does Tree realize she is, in this vision?

2. What answer does Brother Rush give to Tree's question?

3. What does Miss Pricherd do after opening the door?

4. What does Dab see when he comes to the little room with her?

5. How does the narrator characterize Tree's feeling, standing in the little room with Brother Rush?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What interrupts Tree's first experience with Brother Rush?

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

4. Describe Brother Rush as Tree first sees him.

5. What happens to Tree when she is cooking?

6. What is Tree and Dab's relationship with their mother like?

7. How is Brother Rush's death described?

8. Describe Tree's relationship with Miss Pricherd.

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

10. What is Tree as a cook?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Ken and Silversmith. How are they similar? How are they different? What are they like as people? What are they like as father figures for Tree?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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