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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 is the ibis perched?
2. When Brother says, of the hope they had when they started training, "Success lay at the end of summer like a pot of gold" (7), what should the reader understand from this simile?
3. How does the family react when the boys reveal that Doodle can walk?
4. When Doodle smiles at Brother for the first time, how does Brother feel?
5. Why does Brother treat Doodle roughly when he first starts taking him outside in his cart?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What future do "Brother" and Doodle imagine for themselves at Old Woman Sawmp?
3. How does Daddy react to the hurricane, and what emotions do his reactions cause in his sons?
4. How does Doodle get his nickname?
5. When "Brother" dances around with Aunt Nicey to celebrate Doodle walking, what happens, and why it is it ironic?
6. In what ways is the summer of 1918 hard on the family's crops?
7. What is the family's reaction to Doodle when he is born?
8. What changes in the narrator's life when Daddy makes Doodle a cart?
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. When Doodle collapses during their "training," what conversation do he and "Brother" have and how does the conversation show their different attitudes about Doodle's disability?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you consider the effect that story structure has on the reader's understanding of theme. Think about how this story would be different if "Brother" told the story as it was happening or even immediately afterward. When you consider that "Brother" has had years to grow up and think about his actions towards Doodle, how does that impact your understanding of what his story means? 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
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.
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