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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) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Third person omniscient.

2. The phrase, "[T]he oriole nest in the elm was untenanted and rocked back and forth like an empty cradle" (1) is an example of which two literary techniques?
(a) Simile and foreshadowing.
(b) Metaphor and personification.
(c) Imagery and metaphor.
(d) Foreshadowing and personification.

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

4. Where are Doodle's cart and coffin in the time when this story is being told?
(a) They have been thrown away.
(b) In the front room of the house.
(c) Still in the loft in the barn.
(d) They were buried with Doodle.

5. What happens when Brother begins to dance Aunt Nicey around after they reveal that Doodle can walk?
(a) Doodle starts to imitate them.
(b) She steps hard on his toe.
(c) Mama tells him to stop immediately.
(d) Aunt Nicey falls down.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Daddy have Mr. Heath make for Doodle?

4. When is the story being told?

5. How does Brother motivate Doodle to keep trying to learn to walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Doodle die?

2. When the family get excited and try to hug "Brother" for teaching Doodle to walk, how does "Brother" react, and why?

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

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

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

6. How does Daddy react to the hurricane, and what emotions do his reactions cause in his sons?

7. When Mama tells "Brother" that Doodle might be mentally disabled, what does "Brother" plan to do, and what changes his mind?

8. When Doodle collapses during their "training," what conversation do he and "Brother" have and how does the conversation show their different attitudes about Doodle's disability?

9. When they are eating lunch on the day the ibis appears, what argument are the brothers having?

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

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