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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrative point of view of "The Scarlet Ibis"?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) First person.
(d) Second person.

2. When is the story being told?
(a) At the end of Brother's life.
(b) Some years after the events of the story take place.
(c) In the winter, after Doodle dies.
(d) Immediately after the events of the story take place.

3. When it is clear that the training plan is harming Doodle, why does Brother continue?
(a) He promised Aunt Nicey.
(b) He is young and excited.
(c) He secretly wants to hurt Doodle.
(d) His own pride.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the family's reaction to Doodle when he is born?

2. In what ways is the summer of 1918 hard on the family's crops?

3. When the boys are almost ready to show the family that Doodle can walk and they keep hinting that they have a big secret, what does Nicey tell them and what is its thematic significance?

4. Whenever Doodle wants to quit trying to learn how to walk, how does "Brother" motivate him to keep trying?

5. What do Doodle and "Brother" do with the flowers at Old Woman Swamp?

6. What changes in Doodle's living situation when he learns to crawl?

7. What "training" plan does "Brother" come up with for Doodle, and what is his motive?

8. How old is Doodle when he learns to walk, and why is his age relevant to him learning to walk?

9. When school is getting closer, at the end of the summer, how is Doodle doing with his physical training, and what is the result?

10. How does Doodle die?

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