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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the ibis die?
(a) One of the family's cats attacks it.
(b) It dies of natural causes.
(c) Daddy shoots it.
(d) Brother shoots it.
2. Why does Mama make Brother return to the table when he is trying to get outside to see the ibis?
(a) He has knocked over his chair and forgotten to excuse himself.
(b) He was rude to Doodle and she wants him to apologize.
(c) He is not finished eating.
(d) His father was in the middle of saying something to him.
3. Where do Doodle and Brother imagine living when they are older?
(a) In a treehouse.
(b) Old Woman Swamp.
(c) In a houseboat.
(d) New York City.
4. When Brother asks "What are the words that can solder cracked pride?" (11), what is he comparing words to?
(a) A person in the army.
(b) The paste that holds bricks together.
(c) The metal used in welding.
(d) A salesperson in a store.
5. When does the family finally bring Doodle out to be with the rest of the family?
(a) When the doctor tells them they should.
(b) When he learns to speak.
(c) After he learns to crawl.
(d) When Aunt Nicey insists on it.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year does Brother train Doodle?
2. At what time of year is Doodle finally ready to show the family that he can walk?
3. Why does Brother think that it is a good thing for Doodle to have a silly name?
4. What does Mama mean when she tells Brother that Doodle might not be "all there" (2)?
5. When Brother says that the smell of the graveyard flowers is coming through their windows and "speaking softy the names of our dead" (1), this is an example of which literary technique?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Doodle learns to walk, where does the family put his cart, and why is this symbolically appropriate?
2. How does "Brother" go about teaching Doodle to walk?
3. What images of death does the story open with?
4. How does Doodle die?
5. When the family get excited and try to hug "Brother" for teaching Doodle to walk, how does "Brother" react, and why?
6. What future do "Brother" and Doodle imagine for themselves at Old Woman Sawmp?
7. When the boys are almost ready to show the family that Doodle can walk and they keep hinting that they have a big secret, what does Nicey tell them and what is its thematic significance?
8. When Doodle collapses during their "training," what conversation do he and "Brother" have and how does the conversation show their different attitudes about Doodle's disability?
9. When "Brother" dances around with Aunt Nicey to celebrate Doodle walking, what happens, and why it is it ironic?
10. When school is getting closer, at the end of the summer, how is Doodle doing with his physical training, and what is the result?
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