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

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

3. What do Mama and Daddy say about Brother's plan to train Doodle physically?
(a) They forbid it.
(b) They do not know about it.
(c) They think it is a good idea.
(d) They think that they should ask the doctor first.

4. When Brother comments that "Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible" (3), what two literary techniques are being used?
(a) Irony and understatement.
(b) Hyperbole and sarcasm.
(c) Metaphor and imagery.
(d) Personification and simile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What deadline do Doodle and Brother set for Doodle's physical training?

2. What is the first problem the family's crops have in the year that Brother is training Doodle?

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

4. Why does Mama make Brother return to the table when he is trying to get outside to see the ibis?

5. When Doodle first begins to move, how does Mama feel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the grindstone and what is its symbolic meaning?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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