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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 area is the ibis native to?
2. What is Doodle's real name?
3. What is the first problem the family's crops have in the year that Brother is training Doodle?
4. After the incident where Brother makes Doodle touch the casket, what does Doodle cry out over and over?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does "Brother" go about teaching Doodle to walk?
2. 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?
3. When the narrator finally realizes that he will have to take Doodle everywhere he goes, where does he take Doodle, and what is Doodle's reaction?
4. When they are eating lunch on the day the ibis appears, what argument are the brothers having?
5. When the family get excited and try to hug "Brother" for teaching Doodle to walk, how does "Brother" react, and why?
6. How does Doodle get his nickname?
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. What future do "Brother" and Doodle imagine for themselves at Old Woman Sawmp?
9. What images of death does the story open with?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Does the family truly love and accept Doodle? Use quoted textual evidence to support an argument for or against this idea.
Essay Topic 2
Because "Brother" narrates the story, the reader knows his motivations. But what causes Doodle to go along with what his brother wants? Write an essay that uses clear examples from the text to support your claims about what Doodle's motivations are.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you analyze the importance of Doodle's birth "in a caul" (1). What does this represent to various characters, what does it represent in Western culture, and how do these representations have significance for the role that Doodle will eventually play in the family's life? Be sure to cite in MLA format any outside sources that you use, and offer textual support for your claims.
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