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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. Where do Doodle and Brother imagine living when they are older?
(a) New York City.
(b) In a treehouse.
(c) Old Woman Swamp.
(d) In a houseboat.

2. After the incident where Brother makes Doodle touch the casket, what does Doodle cry out over and over?
(a) "Don't leave me."
(b) "I hate you."
(c) "Am I going to die?"
(d) "Why?"

3. What does Brother say causes him to run home during the storm?
(a) Fear.
(b) Shame.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) Disappointment.

4. Where is the ibis perched?
(a) In the loft of the barn.
(b) In the bleeding tree.
(c) On the roof of the house.
(d) On the grindstone.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Brother compare Doodle to when he finds Doodle dead?

3. What does Daddy have Mr. Heath make for Doodle?

4. When it is clear that the training plan is harming Doodle, why does Brother continue?

5. What is it reasonable to assume the flower necklaces floating away toward the sea at the end of the day might symbolize?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. How does Doodle get his nickname?

6. Where is the grindstone and what is its symbolic meaning?

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

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

9. How does Daddy react to the hurricane, and what emotions do his reactions cause in his sons?

10. 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?

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