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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What evidence is there that Brother is pushing Doodle too hard?
(a) Doodle talks less and seems confused at times.
(b) Doodle begins to have trouble breathing.
(c) Doodle becomes feverish and has nightmares.
(d) Doodle begins to have nose bleeds.

2. 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 dangerous and they should stop.
(c) Their goal is an illusion that they will never reach.
(d) Their goal is to achieve something magical.

3. What do Mama and Daddy say about Brother's plan to train Doodle physically?
(a) They do not know about it.
(b) They think that they should ask the doctor first.
(c) They think it is a good idea.
(d) They forbid it.

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

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

6. At what time of year is Doodle finally ready to show the family that he can walk?
(a) Planting time.
(b) Midsummer.
(c) Midwinter.
(d) Harvest time.

7. 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) Metaphor.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Sarcasm.

8. What do Doodle and Brother do to pass the time when they are out and need to stop walking so that Doodle can rest?
(a) They practice throwing a ball.
(b) They make up stories.
(c) They imagine their future together.
(d) They take turns reading to each other.

9. What does Mama notice about the ibis?
(a) It is not frightened of the family.
(b) It seems focused on Doodle.
(c) It seems to have a broken wing.
(d) It is clearly dying.

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

11. Where are Doodle's cart and coffin in the time when this story is being told?
(a) Still in the loft in the barn.
(b) They were buried with Doodle.
(c) In the front room of the house.
(d) They have been thrown away.

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

13. What is the swamp near their house called?
(a) Black Swamp.
(b) Old Woman Swamp.
(c) Deadwood Swamp.
(d) Okefenokee Swamp.

14. In the first sentence of the story, what meaning does "clove" have in "It was in the clove of seasons" (1)?
(a) One section of a bulb of garlic.
(b) The past tense of "cleave."
(c) The space between the two parts of an animal's hoof.
(d) A dried flower bud that is also a spice.

15. When Brother says that both he and Doodle believed in his "infallibility" (7), what does he mean that they believe?
(a) That Brother is kind.
(b) That Brother always succeeds.
(c) That Brother can never do anything wrong.
(d) That Brother is a good Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What replaces the tree in the yard?

2. The phrase, "[T]he oriole nest in the elm was untenanted and rocked back and forth like an empty cradle" (1) is an example of which two literary techniques?

3. Where is the ibis perched?

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

5. In the description of the garden "ironweeds grew rank amid the purple phlox" (1), what does "rank" mean is true about the ironweeds?

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