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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 does Mama mean when she tells Brother that Doodle might not be "all there" (2)?
(a) Doodle might have to go live in a hospital.
(b) Doodle might have a mental illness.
(c) Doodle might be missing a limb.
(d) Doodle might be intellectually disabled.

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

3. 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.

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

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?
(a) Raises his fist and curses the weather and the Republican party.
(b) Says a prayer and tells them God will take care of them.
(c) Scoops Doodle up and dances with him in the rain.
(d) Jumps into a puddle in the field and pretends to swim.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 kind of tree is in Brother's yard when he is a child?

4. What is the narrative point of view of "The Scarlet Ibis"?

5. What is an "ibis"?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Doodle and "Brother" take up telling one another stories to pass the time, what story does Doodle tell?

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

3. Toward the end of summer, how does "Brother" say that he and Doodle are feeling about the training, and why do they keep going?

4. How does Doodle get his nickname?

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

6. What changes in the narrator's life when Daddy makes Doodle a cart?

7. What does the narrator make Doodle do in the barn loft, and how does Doodle react?

8. When Doodle learns to walk, where does the family put his cart, and why is this symbolically appropriate?

9. What future do "Brother" and Doodle imagine for themselves at Old Woman Sawmp?

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

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