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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. Who uses a book to find the name of the ibis?
2. What kind of tree is in Brother's yard when he is a child?
3. Why does Mama make Brother return to the table when he is trying to get outside to see the ibis?
4. What deadline do Doodle and Brother set for Doodle's physical training?
5. Where do Doodle and Brother imagine living when they are older?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Doodle and "Brother" do with the flowers at Old Woman Swamp?
2. 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?
3. When Doodle learns to walk, where does the family put his cart, and why is this symbolically appropriate?
4. How does Doodle die?
5. 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?
6. When they are eating lunch on the day the ibis appears, what argument are the brothers having?
7. Whenever Doodle wants to quit trying to learn how to walk, how does "Brother" motivate him to keep trying?
8. What changes in the narrator's life when Daddy makes Doodle a cart?
9. In what ways is the summer of 1918 hard on the family's crops?
10. When Mama tells "Brother" that Doodle might be mentally disabled, what does "Brother" plan to do, and what changes his mind?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Hurst offers a great deal of foreshadowing in the opening of "The Scarlet Ibis." Write an essay in which you analyze the first five paragraphs' use of foreshadowing--identify elements of foreshadowing and explain what they predict, and how.
Essay Topic 2
Because "Brother" narrates the story, the reader knows his motivations. But what causes Doodle to go along with what his brother wants? Write an essay that uses clear examples from the text to support your claims about what Doodle's motivations are.
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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