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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. 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 an illusion that they will never reach.
(b) Their goal is dangerous and they should stop.
(c) Their goal is worth more than gold, to them.
(d) Their goal is to achieve something magical.

2. What is "Doodle" short for?
(a) Doodlebug.
(b) Nothing--it refers to a drawing Doodle did.
(c) Yankee Doodle.
(d) Cock-a-doodle-doo.

3. What is the first problem the family's crops have in the year that Brother is training Doodle?
(a) Drought.
(b) Frost.
(c) Insects.
(d) Floods.

4. What happens when Brother begins to dance Aunt Nicey around after they reveal that Doodle can walk?
(a) Doodle starts to imitate them.
(b) Mama tells him to stop immediately.
(c) She steps hard on his toe.
(d) Aunt Nicey falls down.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, at the end of summer, does Brother start to push Doodle so hard in his "training" efforts?

2. What do the "strange names" (8) talked about at the family dinner party allude to?

3. When does the family finally bring Doodle out to be with the rest of the family?

4. When Brother asks "What are the words that can solder cracked pride?" (11), what is he comparing words to?

5. When the family sees Doodle struggling to bury the ibis, what is their response?

Short Essay Questions

1. When "Brother" tells Doodle that he is going to teach Doodle to walk, what is Doodle's response?

2. Whenever Doodle wants to quit trying to learn how to walk, how does "Brother" motivate him to keep trying?

3. When they are eating lunch on the day the ibis appears, what argument are the brothers having?

4. Which character says "And bless the Pearsons, whose boy Joe was lost at Belleau Wood" (8) and what does this comment foreshadow?

5. How does Doodle die?

6. What are Chateau-Thierry, Amiens, and Soissons, and how do they relate to this story?

7. What "training" plan does "Brother" come up with for Doodle, and what is his motive?

8. What do Doodle and "Brother" do with the flowers at Old Woman Swamp?

9. In what ways is the summer of 1918 hard on the family's crops?

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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