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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 is it reasonable to assume the flower necklaces floating away toward the sea at the end of the day might symbolize?
(a) The brief nature of youth and innocence.
(b) The beauty of Brother and Doodle's relationship.
(c) The ease with which nature can be harmed.
(d) The danger of Doodle's trust in Brother.

2. Who is the first to see the ibis?
(a) Daddy.
(b) Aunt Nicey.
(c) Doodle.
(d) Brother.

3. What do Mama and Daddy say about Brother's plan to train Doodle physically?
(a) They think it is a good idea.
(b) They do not know about it.
(c) They forbid it.
(d) They think that they should ask the doctor first.

4. What do Doodle and Brother leave to do after lunch?
(a) Go rowing at Horsehead Landing.
(b) Search to see if they can find the ibis's mate.
(c) Climb vines at Old Woman Swamp.
(d) Box at Old Woman Swamp.

5. What draws the family's attention to the ibis?
(a) A croaking noise.
(b) The sound of its wings.
(c) The loud reaction of their chickens.
(d) A flash of red.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doodle say when Brother tells him he is going to teach him to walk?

2. Why does Brother cry when everyone hugs him for teaching Doodle to walk?

3. Just before they notice the ibis, what does Daddy say he is expecting?

4. How does the family react when the boys reveal that Doodle can walk?

5. Just before they notice the ibis, what does Doodle contradict Brother about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Doodle die?

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

5. When the family get excited and try to hug "Brother" for teaching Doodle to walk, how does "Brother" react, and why?

6. 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?

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

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

9. How does Doodle get his nickname?

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

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