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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. Just before they notice the ibis, what does Daddy say he is expecting?
(a) A larger cotton crop than usual.
(b) A storm.
(c) A delicious dessert.
(d) A letter from a neighbor who is fighting in the war.

2. What are Doodle's last words?
(a) "I love you."
(b) "Don't leave me!"
(c) "I told you."
(d) "Don't hurt me!"

3. What replaces the tree in the yard?
(a) A statue.
(b) A shed.
(c) A well.
(d) A grindstone.

4. Why does Brother treat Doodle roughly when he first starts taking him outside in his cart?
(a) Doodle annoys him by asking constant questions.
(b) He is still trying to hurt Doodle because Doodle embarrasses him.
(c) He wants Doodle to stop asking to come with him.
(d) He is too young to understand how delicate Doodle is.

5. What does Brother compare Doodle to when he finds Doodle dead?
(a) Himself.
(b) Aunt Nicey.
(c) A crashed kite.
(d) The scarlet ibis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Doodle and Brother do to pass the time when they are out and need to stop walking so that Doodle can rest?

2. What evidence is there that Brother is pushing Doodle too hard?

3. What does the reader learn about Doodle from his story about Peter?

4. Just before they notice the ibis, what does Doodle contradict Brother about?

5. When Brother says that both he and Doodle believed in his "infallibility" (7), what does he mean that they believe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When "Brother" tells Doodle that he is going to teach Doodle to walk, what is Doodle's response?

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

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

5. How does "Brother" go about teaching Doodle to walk?

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

7. 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?

8. How does Doodle die?

9. What are Chateau-Thierry, Amiens, and Soissons, and how do they relate to this story?

10. When the narrator finally realizes that he will have to take Doodle everywhere he goes, where does he take Doodle, and what is Doodle's reaction?

(see the answer keys)

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