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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Doodle and Brother leave to do after lunch?
(a) Climb vines at Old Woman Swamp.
(b) Box at Old Woman Swamp.
(c) Go rowing at Horsehead Landing.
(d) Search to see if they can find the ibis's mate.

2. When the family sees Doodle struggling to bury the ibis, what is their response?
(a) Mama sends Brother out to help him.
(b) They feel sad.
(c) Daddy calls to Doodle to stop and come inside.
(d) They laugh at him.

3. What is "Brother's" first reaction to Doodle?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Anger.
(d) Pity.

4. Doodle has an active mind and talks a lot. What is his family's reaction to this?
(a) They make fun of him.
(b) They suggest that he might become a writer.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) They are jealous of him.

5. When Brother says, of the hope they had when they started training, "Success lay at the end of summer like a pot of gold" (7), what should the reader understand from this simile?
(a) Their goal is worth more than gold, to them.
(b) Their goal is an illusion that they will never reach.
(c) Their goal is dangerous and they should stop.
(d) Their goal is to achieve something magical.

6. When Brother says that "the flood of childish spite evanesced" (11), what is he saying happened?
(a) The storm started to break.
(b) His pride was like a flood of water.
(c) He could see through the trees to where Doodle lay on the ground.
(d) His anger went away.

7. How does the ibis die?
(a) One of the family's cats attacks it.
(b) It dies of natural causes.
(c) Brother shoots it.
(d) Daddy shoots it.

8. What area is the ibis native to?
(a) The American South.
(b) Africa.
(c) South America to Florida
(d) Canada and the American North.

9. The sentence "Mama once said, 'And bless the Pearsons, whose boy Joe was lost at Belleau Wood'" (8) is an example of which literary technique?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Metaphor.

10. Why does Brother think that it is a good thing for Doodle to have a silly name?
(a) Because Doodle has a silly sense of humor.
(b) Because people will like him more.
(c) Because it will distract people from the way Doodle looks.
(d) Because people will not expect much from him.

11. When, on page 8, Brother says that they kept working with "doggedness," what does he mean?
(a) They worked playfully and happily.
(b) They worked with determination and persistence.
(c) They worked slowly and methodically.
(d) They worked beyond the point that is reasonable.

12. After the incident where Brother makes Doodle touch the casket, what does Doodle cry out over and over?
(a) "Don't leave me."
(b) "I hate you."
(c) "Why?"
(d) "Am I going to die?"

13. When it is clear that the training plan is harming Doodle, why does Brother continue?
(a) His own pride.
(b) He promised Aunt Nicey.
(c) He is young and excited.
(d) He secretly wants to hurt Doodle.

14. Just before they notice the ibis, what does Daddy say he is expecting?
(a) A storm.
(b) A letter from a neighbor who is fighting in the war.
(c) A delicious dessert.
(d) A larger cotton crop than usual.

15. Who uses a book to find the name of the ibis?
(a) Doodle.
(b) Aunt Nicey.
(c) Mama.
(d) Daddy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives Doodle his nickname?

2. In the place name "Horsehead Landing," what does the word "landing" mean?

3. When Brother says that both he and Doodle believed in his "infallibility" (7), what does he mean that they believe?

4. In what year does Brother train Doodle?

5. What does Mama mean when she tells Brother that Doodle might not be "all there" (2)?

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