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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 be missing a limb.
(b) Doodle might be intellectually disabled.
(c) Doodle might have to go live in a hospital.
(d) Doodle might have a mental illness.

2. What does Daddy have Mr. Heath make for Doodle?
(a) A casket.
(b) A special bed.
(c) A cart.
(d) A wheelchair.

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

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

5. Why does Brother cry when everyone hugs him for teaching Doodle to walk?
(a) He is so relieved that everything went just right.
(b) He is afraid he might have hurt Doodle and they will find out.
(c) He rarely gets the family's attention.
(d) He knows that he did it for the wrong reasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Doodle and Brother imagine living when they are older?

2. The phrase, "[T]he oriole nest in the elm was untenanted and rocked back and forth like an empty cradle" (1) is an example of which two literary techniques?

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

4. When Brother says that both he and Doodle believed in his "infallibility" (7), what does he mean that they believe?

5. What is "Doodle" short for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do Doodle and "Brother" do with the flowers at Old Woman Swamp?

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

7. How does Doodle die?

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

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

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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