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

2. What is Brother's real name?
(a) James Hurst.
(b) William Armstrong.
(c) It is never given.
(d) Robert Graves.

3. What do Doodle and Brother do to pass the time when they are out and need to stop walking so that Doodle can rest?
(a) They practice throwing a ball.
(b) They make up stories.
(c) They imagine their future together.
(d) They take turns reading to each other.

4. 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 in orderly rows in between the phlox.
(b) They are taller than the phlox.
(c) They are more important than the phlox.
(d) They are everywhere and possibly also smell bad.

5. Where do Doodle and Brother imagine living when they are older?
(a) Old Woman Swamp.
(b) New York City.
(c) In a treehouse.
(d) In a houseboat.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the family finally bring Doodle out to be with the rest of the family?

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. What is the "caul" that Doodle is born with?

4. On page 8, when Brother warns Doodle that he will be different from the other boys at school, what is Doodle's reply?

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

(see the answer key)

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