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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 13-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the result of Tree describing details of Brother Rush's accident?
(a) It makes Tree distrust her mother.
(b) It unnerves M'Vy.
(c) It makes the ghost more real.
(d) It makes M'Vy distrust her.

2. What makes M'Vy believe Tree when she says that Dab is sick?
(a) Because Tree has been taking care of him.
(b) Tree's story about Brother Rush.
(c) Because Tree is pale with fear.
(d) Because Tree knows him better than she does.

3. What does Tree do for Dab?
(a) She washes him in bed.
(b) She makes Miss Pricherd go away.
(c) She makes breakfast.
(d) She cleans his room.

4. What does Tree realize as her mother tells her stories?
(a) That her mother has been gone a lot of the time.
(b) That she never knew where she came from.
(c) That she has never asked questions.
(d) That it never mattered to her, who her father had been.

5. Who is driving with Brother Rush?
(a) Dab.
(b) Brother Rush's girlfriend.
(c) Tree's father.
(d) M'Vy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush" narrated?

2. What happens when Miss Pricherd opens the door to Tree's little room?

3. Where is Tree whisked away to?

4. What is Tree's response when M'Vy comes home?

5. Why has Brother Rush covered his face, in Tree's vision?

(see the answer key)

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