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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 does M'Vy say is Dab's problem?

2. What stories does Don tell Tree?

3. What does Miss Pricherd say will happen to Dab's things?

4. What threat does Tree make, when she and M'Vy disagree about the funeral?

5. What does Don do over dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when M'Vy follows Tree into the little room?

2. What happens when Miss Pricherd cleans Dab's room?

3. What is Tree's nightmare?

4. What is Tree and M'Vy's relationship like, at the end of the book?

5. Describe Dab's admittance into the hospital.

6. What does Tree see when she and M'Vy are transported back to the past together?

7. How is the relationship with Tree and Miss Pricherd different at the end of the book?

8. What does Tree see from the back seat of the car, when no one knows she is there?

9. What does Tree learn when she sees Brother Rush after Dab's death?

10. What new information does Tree learn about Brother Rush's death, when they are checking in at the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Dab's illness seem to be, and how important is it that we know exactly what it is? Considering how his health affects the rest of the story, does it matter what it is, exactly?

Essay Topic 2

Would you recommend Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush"? For what purposes would you recommend "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush", and what kinds of readers would you not recommend it for? What book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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