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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 is "Doodle" short for?
(a) Cock-a-doodle-doo.
(b) Yankee Doodle.
(c) Doodlebug.
(d) Nothing--it refers to a drawing Doodle did.

2. In the description of the garden "ironweeds grew rank amid the purple phlox" (1), what does "rank" mean is true about the ironweeds?
(a) They are everywhere and possibly also smell bad.
(b) They are in orderly rows in between the phlox.
(c) They are taller than the phlox.
(d) They are more important than the phlox.

3. 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 playfully and happily.
(c) They worked with determination and persistence.
(d) They worked beyond the point that is reasonable.

4. What does Brother say causes him to run home during the storm?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Shame.
(c) Fear.
(d) Disappointment.

5. When Brother comments that "Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible" (3), what two literary techniques are being used?
(a) Irony and understatement.
(b) Personification and simile.
(c) Metaphor and imagery.
(d) Hyperbole and sarcasm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the ibis perched?

2. How does the family react when the boys reveal that Doodle can walk?

3. Just before they notice the ibis, what does Doodle contradict Brother about?

4. In the place name "Horsehead Landing," what does the word "landing" mean?

5. What does Brother compare Doodle to when he finds Doodle dead?

(see the answer key)

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