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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1" "The Scarlet Ibis".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What replaces the tree in the yard?
(a) A well.
(b) A grindstone.
(c) A statue.
(d) A shed.

2. When Doodle smiles at Brother for the first time, how does Brother feel?
(a) Happy and excited.
(b) Confused and worried.
(c) Suspicious and numb.
(d) Sad and angry.

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?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Understatement.

4. When, on page 8, Brother says that they kept working with "doggedness," what does he mean?
(a) They worked slowly and methodically.
(b) They worked with determination and persistence.
(c) They worked playfully and happily.
(d) They worked beyond the point that is reasonable.

5. When Brother finally decides to treat Doodle like a brother, where does he take him for the first time?
(a) Horsehead Landing.
(b) The family graveyard.
(c) The cottonfield.
(d) Old Woman Swamp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, at the end of summer, does Brother start to push Doodle so hard in his "training" efforts?

2. What is an "ibis"?

3. When Mama tells Brother that she is afraid that Doodle might not be "all there," what is Brother's response (2)?

4. Why does Brother treat Doodle roughly when he first starts taking him outside in his cart?

5. What do the "strange names" (8) talked about at the family dinner party allude to?

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