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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. Why does Doodle cry when Brother takes him to see the "only beauty" Brother knows (3)?
(a) Because he has never seen flowers before.
(b) Because his life is too hard.
(c) Because he loves Brother.
(d) Because it is pretty.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first problem the family's crops have in the year that Brother is training Doodle?

2. What kind of tree is in Brother's yard when he is a child?

3. When Mama tells Brother that she is afraid that Doodle might not be "all there," what is Brother's response (2)?

4. In what year does Brother train Doodle?

5. What draws the family's attention to the ibis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes in the narrator's life when Daddy makes Doodle a cart?

2. When Mama tells "Brother" that Doodle might be mentally disabled, what does "Brother" plan to do, and what changes his mind?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

6. What does the narrator make Doodle do in the barn loft, and how does Doodle react?

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

8. What images of death does the story open with?

9. When "Brother" dances around with Aunt Nicey to celebrate Doodle walking, what happens, and why it is it ironic?

10. How does "Brother" go about teaching Doodle to walk?

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