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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. 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) Metaphor and personification.
(b) Foreshadowing and personification.
(c) Simile and foreshadowing.
(d) Imagery and metaphor.

2. Why does Doodle cry when Brother takes him to see the "only beauty" Brother knows (3)?
(a) Because he loves Brother.
(b) Because he has never seen flowers before.
(c) Because it is pretty.
(d) Because his life is too hard.

3. What literary techniques are shown in the phrase, "[I]t lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers" (9)?
(a) Imagery, foreshadowing, and simile.
(b) Metaphor, allusion, and symbolism.
(c) Imagery, metaphor, and allegory.
(d) Symbolism, flashback, and euphemism.

4. What is the first problem the family's crops have in the year that Brother is training Doodle?
(a) Insects.
(b) Floods.
(c) Drought.
(d) Frost.

5. What evidence is there that Brother is pushing Doodle too hard?
(a) Doodle becomes feverish and has nightmares.
(b) Doodle begins to have nose bleeds.
(c) Doodle talks less and seems confused at times.
(d) Doodle begins to have trouble breathing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mama notice about the ibis?

3. What do Mama and Daddy say about Brother's plan to train Doodle physically?

4. On what does Brother blame his cruelty toward Doodle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What images of death does the story open with?

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

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

5. Which character says "And bless the Pearsons, whose boy Joe was lost at Belleau Wood" (8) and what does this comment foreshadow?

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

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

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

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

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

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