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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. 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) The storm started to break.
(d) His anger went away.

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

3. How does Brother respond to Doodle's love for natural beauty?
(a) He takes Doodle to Old Woman Swamp over and over.
(b) He decides to teach Doodle to swim.
(c) He gets Doodle art supplies so that he can paint flowers.
(d) He gets Doodle a book full of pictures of flowers.

4. What are Brother and Doodle doing on the day when Doodle cannot keep going and falls to the ground, crying?
(a) Running.
(b) Boxing.
(c) Walking.
(d) Rope climbing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to see the ibis?

2. How does the ibis die?

3. What does Brother say causes him to run home during the storm?

4. Who does Doodle suggest that Brother can marry?

5. What area is the ibis native to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When the boys are almost ready to show the family that Doodle can walk and they keep hinting that they have a big secret, what does Nicey tell them and what is its thematic significance?

4. When school is getting closer, at the end of the summer, how is Doodle doing with his physical training, and what is the result?

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

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

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

8. Toward the end of summer, how does "Brother" say that he and Doodle are feeling about the training, and why do they keep going?

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

10. How old is Doodle when he learns to walk, and why is his age relevant to him learning to walk?

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