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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 causes Brother to say that Doodle is a "burden in many ways" (3)?
(a) The doctor has made a long list of rules for taking care of Doodle.
(b) Doodle talks almost all the time.
(c) Brother's friends make fun of Doodle.
(d) Doodle is getting too heavy for Brother to pull in the cart.

2. 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 make up stories.
(b) They practice throwing a ball.
(c) They take turns reading to each other.
(d) They imagine their future together.

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

4. What literary techniques are shown in the phrase, "[I]t lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers" (9)?
(a) Symbolism, flashback, and euphemism.
(b) Imagery, metaphor, and allegory.
(c) Imagery, foreshadowing, and simile.
(d) Metaphor, allusion, and symbolism.

5. When Doodle first begins to move, how does Mama feel?
(a) Puzzled.
(b) Overjoyed.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Apathetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. At first, Daddy is upset by the hurricane and looks defeated. What does he do that makes Brother and Doodle think that things will be all right?

2. Where is the ibis perched?

3. What is the first problem the family's crops have in the year that Brother is training Doodle?

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

5. What is it reasonable to assume the flower necklaces floating away toward the sea at the end of the day might symbolize?

(see the answer key)

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