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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. On page 8, when Brother warns Doodle that he will be different from the other boys at school, what is Doodle's reply?
(a) "I will still have you."
(b) "I won't go to school, then."
(c) "Everyone is different, somehow."
(d) "Does it make any difference?"

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

3. Doodle has an active mind and talks a lot. What is his family's reaction to this?
(a) They are jealous of him.
(b) They suggest that he might become a writer.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) They make fun of him.

4. When it is clear that the training plan is harming Doodle, why does Brother continue?
(a) He promised Aunt Nicey.
(b) He secretly wants to hurt Doodle.
(c) He is young and excited.
(d) His own pride.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only person who does not like the name "Doodle"?

2. What area is the ibis native to?

3. How old is Doodle when he begins to try to move himself?

4. In the first sentence of the story, what meaning does "clove" have in "It was in the clove of seasons" (1)?

5. In what year does Brother train Doodle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Doodle get his nickname?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. What are Chateau-Thierry, Amiens, and Soissons, and how do they relate to this story?

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

10. Which character says "And bless the Pearsons, whose boy Joe was lost at Belleau Wood" (8) and what does this comment foreshadow?

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