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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. Where do Doodle and Brother imagine living when they are older?
2. What is the first problem the family's crops have in the year that Brother is training Doodle?
3. When Brother says that the smell of the graveyard flowers is coming through their windows and "speaking softy the names of our dead" (1), this is an example of which literary technique?
4. What are Brother and Doodle doing on the day when Doodle cannot keep going and falls to the ground, crying?
5. Who claims that dead birds are bad luck?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the family's reaction to Doodle when he is born?
2. What images of death does the story open with?
3. How does Daddy react to the hurricane, and what emotions do his reactions cause in his sons?
4. What changes in Doodle's living situation when he learns to crawl?
5. What future do "Brother" and Doodle imagine for themselves at Old Woman Sawmp?
6. What are Chateau-Thierry, Amiens, and Soissons, and how do they relate to this story?
7. Where is the grindstone and what is its symbolic meaning?
8. What does the narrator make Doodle do in the barn loft, and how does Doodle react?
9. 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?
10. Whenever Doodle wants to quit trying to learn how to walk, how does "Brother" motivate him to keep trying?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is there any defense of "Brother's" actions where Doodle is concerned? Write an essay in which you consider both why "Brother" did what he did and what effects his actions had in Doodle's life. Be sure to use textual support for 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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