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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 Mama mean when she tells Brother that Doodle might not be "all there" (2)?
(a) Doodle might have a mental illness.
(b) Doodle might have to go live in a hospital.
(c) Doodle might be intellectually disabled.
(d) Doodle might be missing a limb.

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

3. What do Doodle and Brother do to pass the time when they are out and need to stop walking so that Doodle can rest?
(a) They imagine their future together.
(b) They make up stories.
(c) They practice throwing a ball.
(d) They take turns reading to each other.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Doodle cry when Brother takes him to see the "only beauty" Brother knows (3)?

2. When Brother says, of the hope they had when they started training, "Success lay at the end of summer like a pot of gold" (7), what should the reader understand from this simile?

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

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

5. When Brother comments that "Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible" (3), what two literary techniques are being used?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How does Doodle get his nickname?

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

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

6. Whenever Doodle wants to quit trying to learn how to walk, how does "Brother" motivate him to keep trying?

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

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

9. How does "Brother" go about teaching Doodle to walk?

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

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