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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. What does the reader learn about Doodle from his story about Peter?
(a) Doodle is much smarter than Brother.
(b) Doodle is frightened of going to school.
(c) Doodle secretly hates Brother.
(d) Doodle has a vivid imagination.

2. 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.

3. What is Doodle's real name?
(a) Robert Graves.
(b) It is never given.
(c) William Armstrong.
(d) James Hurst.

4. What Biblical event does Aunt Nicey mention when the boys tell the family that they have a big surprise for them?
(a) The Flood.
(b) Noah being swallowed by a "great fish."
(c) The Resurrection.
(d) Adam and Eve eating the apple.

5. Who is the only person who does not expect Doodle to die soon after his birth?
(a) Daddy.
(b) Mama.
(c) Brother.
(d) Aunt Nicey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Brother and Doodle doing on the day when Doodle cannot keep going and falls to the ground, crying?

2. At what time of year is Doodle finally ready to show the family that he can walk?

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

4. How does Brother respond to Doodle's love for natural beauty?

5. Who claims that dead birds are bad luck?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Doodle die?

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

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

5. What future do "Brother" and Doodle imagine for themselves at Old Woman Sawmp?

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

7. When Doodle learns to walk, where does the family put his cart, and why is this symbolically appropriate?

8. What changes in Doodle's living situation when he learns to crawl?

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

10. When Doodle and "Brother" take up telling one another stories to pass the time, what story does Doodle tell?

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