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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 Brother know is covering the casket that he makes Doodle touch?
(a) Poison.
(b) Cockroaches.
(c) Bird droppings.
(d) Spiderwebs.

2. The sentence "Mama once said, 'And bless the Pearsons, whose boy Joe was lost at Belleau Wood'" (8) is an example of which literary technique?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Hyperbole.

3. Who uses a book to find the name of the ibis?
(a) Daddy.
(b) Mama.
(c) Doodle.
(d) Aunt Nicey.

4. When Doodle smiles at Brother for the first time, how does Brother feel?
(a) Suspicious and numb.
(b) Sad and angry.
(c) Confused and worried.
(d) Happy and excited.

5. What is an "ibis"?
(a) A type of tree.
(b) A flower.
(c) A bird.
(d) A fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Doodle's real name?

2. What does the doctor say about Doodle trying to move around?

3. At what time of year is Doodle finally ready to show the family that he can walk?

4. On page 8, when Brother warns Doodle that he will be different from the other boys at school, what is Doodle's reply?

5. In what year does Brother train Doodle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the family's reaction to Doodle when he is born?

6. When they are eating lunch on the day the ibis appears, what argument are the brothers having?

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

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

9. When the narrator finally realizes that he will have to take Doodle everywhere he goes, where does he take Doodle, and what is Doodle's reaction?

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

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