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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Brother asks "What are the words that can solder cracked pride?" (11), what is he comparing words to?
(a) A salesperson in a store.
(b) A person in the army.
(c) The paste that holds bricks together.
(d) The metal used in welding.

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

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

4. How old is Doodle when he begins to try to move himself?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

5. What do the "strange names" (8) talked about at the family dinner party allude to?
(a) They are the locations of World War I battles.
(b) They are the names of family members buried in the family graveyard.
(c) They are the neighbor families who have lost children in World War I.
(d) They are the places that the family plans to travel in Europe.

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

7. When Brother comments that "Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible" (3), what two literary techniques are being used?
(a) Metaphor and imagery.
(b) Personification and simile.
(c) Irony and understatement.
(d) Hyperbole and sarcasm.

8. What is an "ibis"?
(a) A flower.
(b) A fish.
(c) A bird.
(d) A type of tree.

9. What does Daddy have Mr. Heath make for Doodle?
(a) A special bed.
(b) A cart.
(c) A wheelchair.
(d) A casket.

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

11. Why, at the end of summer, does Brother start to push Doodle so hard in his "training" efforts?
(a) Brother knows that when school starts, Doodle is likely to be too busy to keep training.
(b) Brother knows that when winter comes, Doodle is likely to be too ill to keep training.
(c) Harvest season is coming and Brother wants Doodle to be strong enough to help this year.
(d) School is coming and Doodle does not yet have the physical skills to keep up with other boys.

12. What kind of tree is in Brother's yard when he is a child?
(a) One with medicinal bark.
(b) One with cloudy sap.
(c) One with thorns.
(d) One with red flowers.

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

14. In what year does Brother train Doodle?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1916.

15. On what does Brother blame his cruelty toward Doodle?
(a) His embarrassment and shame due to Doodle's disability.
(b) The unfair burden of having to take care of his brother.
(c) His jealousy of Doodle's happy temperment.
(d) His own nature and his love for Doodle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Brother cry when everyone hugs him for teaching Doodle to walk?

2. Where is the ibis perched?

3. When Doodle smiles at Brother for the first time, how does Brother feel?

4. What evidence is there that Brother is pushing Doodle too hard?

5. What is the swamp near their house called?

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