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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. How does Brother motivate Doodle to keep trying to learn to walk?
(a) He tells Doodle that other boys will make fun of him if he cannot walk.
(b) He shames him by making him imagine being an old man pulled around in a cart.
(c) He reminds Doodle of how hard he worked to learn to crawl.
(d) He tells him that their mother and father will love him more if he can walk.

2. What is an "ibis"?
(a) A type of tree.
(b) A flower.
(c) A bird.
(d) A fish.

3. Where are Doodle's cart and coffin in the time when this story is being told?
(a) They were buried with Doodle.
(b) Still in the loft in the barn.
(c) In the front room of the house.
(d) They have been thrown away.

4. On page 8, when Brother warns Doodle that he will be different from the other boys at school, what is Doodle's reply?
(a) "Everyone is different, somehow."
(b) "Does it make any difference?"
(c) "I will still have you."
(d) "I won't go to school, then."

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) Metaphor and imagery.
(b) Personification and simile.
(c) Irony and understatement.
(d) Hyperbole and sarcasm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What deadline do Doodle and Brother set for Doodle's physical training?

2. When the family sees Doodle struggling to bury the ibis, what is their response?

3. Why does Brother think that it is a good thing for Doodle to have a silly name?

4. When Brother finally decides to treat Doodle like a brother, where does he take him for the first time?

5. What does Doodle say when Brother tells him he is going to teach him to walk?

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