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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Dab?
(a) 15.
(b) 19.
(c) 13.
(d) 17.

2. What does Brother Rush do at night?
(a) Work at a meat packing plant.
(b) Play jazz.
(c) Deliver numbers.
(d) Sing in a nightclub.

3. What is Tree thinking about when she arrives home?
(a) The rainy weekend.
(b) Brother Rush.
(c) Her grades.
(d) Her hunger.

4. How does the narrator characterize Tree's feeling, standing in the little room with Brother Rush?
(a) She feels transported to a faraway place.
(b) She feels like the laws of time and gravity do not apply to her.
(c) She feels like she is not herself any more.
(d) She feels like she is dreaming, and anything is possible.

5. What snaps Tree back to the present?
(a) She is called by her mother.
(b) Dab comes into the room.
(c) A breeze blows through.
(d) She gets hungry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree imagine of Brother Rush's?

2. How did Brother Rush die?

3. Who is Dab?

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

5. How old is Teresa?

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