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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the family react when the boys reveal that Doodle can walk?
2. What literary techniques are shown in the phrase, "[I]t lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers" (9)?
3. What does the reader learn about Doodle from his story about Peter?
4. 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?
5. What do Mama and Daddy say about Brother's plan to train Doodle physically?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does "Brother" go about teaching Doodle to walk?
2. What does the narrator make Doodle do in the barn loft, and how does Doodle react?
3. What is the family's reaction to Doodle when he is born?
4. How does Doodle get his nickname?
5. When Doodle learns to walk, where does the family put his cart, and why is this symbolically appropriate?
6. When the family get excited and try to hug "Brother" for teaching Doodle to walk, how does "Brother" react, and why?
7. What future do "Brother" and Doodle imagine for themselves at Old Woman Sawmp?
8. How does Doodle die?
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. How does Daddy react to the hurricane, and what emotions do his reactions cause in his sons?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Brother says, on page 4, "There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot
of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the
seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle." Write an essay in which you explain the meaning of this quote and make an argument for or against the narrator's ideas about cruelty and love. Be sure to use textual evidence in support of your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Does the family truly love and accept Doodle? Use quoted textual evidence to support an argument for or against this idea.
Essay Topic 3
The narrator feels responsible for his brother's death. Do you agree? Write an essay using evidence form the story to argue that "Brother" is or is not responsible for Doodle's death.
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