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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Doodle cry when Brother takes him to see the "only beauty" Brother knows (3)?
(a) Because he loves Brother.
(b) Because his life is too hard.
(c) Because it is pretty.
(d) Because he has never seen flowers before.

2. What does Brother know is covering the casket that he makes Doodle touch?
(a) Poison.
(b) Bird droppings.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) Spiderwebs.

3. How does the ibis die?
(a) It dies of natural causes.
(b) Brother shoots it.
(c) One of the family's cats attacks it.
(d) Daddy shoots it.

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

5. How does Brother respond to Doodle's love for natural beauty?
(a) He gets Doodle art supplies so that he can paint flowers.
(b) He takes Doodle to Old Woman Swamp over and over.
(c) He decides to teach Doodle to swim.
(d) He gets Doodle a book full of pictures of flowers.

6. On what does Brother blame his cruelty toward Doodle?
(a) His jealousy of Doodle's happy temperment.
(b) His own nature and his love for Doodle.
(c) His embarrassment and shame due to Doodle's disability.
(d) The unfair burden of having to take care of his brother.

7. What kind of tree is in Brother's yard when he is a child?
(a) One with cloudy sap.
(b) One with red flowers.
(c) One with thorns.
(d) One with medicinal bark.

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

9. What deadline do Doodle and Brother set for Doodle's physical training?
(a) They want to be done by springtime.
(b) They want to be done by the time Doodle starts school.
(c) They want to be done by Christmas.
(d) They want to be done by Doodle's seventh birthday.

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

11. When Brother says that "the flood of childish spite evanesced" (11), what is he saying happened?
(a) The storm started to break.
(b) His anger went away.
(c) His pride was like a flood of water.
(d) He could see through the trees to where Doodle lay on the ground.

12. What area is the ibis native to?
(a) The American South.
(b) South America to Florida
(c) Africa.
(d) Canada and the American North.

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

14. Who does Doodle suggest that Brother can marry?
(a) Their aunt.
(b) Their neighbor.
(c) Their mother.
(d) Their father.

15. What do Doodle and Brother leave to do after lunch?
(a) Climb vines at Old Woman Swamp.
(b) Search to see if they can find the ibis's mate.
(c) Go rowing at Horsehead Landing.
(d) Box at Old Woman Swamp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "Brother's" first reaction to Doodle?

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

3. Who is the author of "The Scarlet Ibis"?

4. When it is clear that the training plan is harming Doodle, why does Brother continue?

5. What explanation does Daddy offer for the ibis's behavior?

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