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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 wakes Tree up, after she decides to run away?

2. What else does Tree realize in the vision?

3. How has M'Vy changed for the funeral?

4. What does M'Vy try to ease Tree's mind about?

5. What does Tree tell Miss Pricherd?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dab's admittance into the hospital.

2. How is Dab described when Tree visits him in chapter 11?

3. What is Tree's nightmare?

4. How is Silversmith described?

5. Why does Tree get upset when M'Vy says that it is time to go out?

6. What does M'Vy tell Tree about her brothers and Dab?

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

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

9. What ails Brother Rush?

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

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

Write an evaluative review of "Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush". What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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