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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. When it is clear that the training plan is harming Doodle, why does Brother continue?
2. What are Doodle's last words?
3. What literary techniques are shown in the phrase, "[I]t lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers" (9)?
4. What area is the ibis native to?
5. Who is the first to see the ibis?
Short Essay Questions
1. What "training" plan does "Brother" come up with for Doodle, and what is his motive?
2. What are Chateau-Thierry, Amiens, and Soissons, and how do they relate to this story?
3. How does Doodle die?
4. When Doodle learns to walk, where does the family put his cart, and why is this symbolically appropriate?
5. When they are eating lunch on the day the ibis appears, what argument are the brothers having?
6. What is the family's reaction to Doodle when he is born?
7. 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?
8. Where is the grindstone and what is its symbolic meaning?
9. What changes in Doodle's living situation when he learns to crawl?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a thesis-driven essay in which you analyze the setting of Old Woman Swamp. Consider questions like these: What events take place there? How do the boys feel while they are there? Why does it matter that it is a natural setting and that it is described as the only spot of beauty around them? Be sure to use textual evidence as support for your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you consider the significance of the stories that the two brothers tell one another. They often imagine their future, and sometimes they pass time by making up stories about imaginary worlds. What do these stories tell the reader about the characters and about their motives? Be sure to use textual evidence to support your claims.
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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