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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. When Brother finally decides to treat Doodle like a brother, where does he take him for the first time?
(a) Horsehead Landing.
(b) Old Woman Swamp.
(c) The cottonfield.
(d) The family graveyard.

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

3. What is the narrative point of view of "The Scarlet Ibis"?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) First person.
(d) Second person.

4. What is "Doodle" short for?
(a) Doodlebug.
(b) Yankee Doodle.
(c) Nothing--it refers to a drawing Doodle did.
(d) Cock-a-doodle-doo.

5. What is Brother's real name?
(a) William Armstrong.
(b) It is never given.
(c) Robert Graves.
(d) James Hurst.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the ibis perched?

3. Why does Brother think that it is a good thing for Doodle to have a silly name?

4. Where are Doodle's cart and coffin in the time when this story is being told?

5. On page 8, when Brother warns Doodle that he will be different from the other boys at school, what is Doodle's reply?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When "Brother" dances around with Aunt Nicey to celebrate Doodle walking, what happens, and why it is it ironic?

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

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

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. What "training" plan does "Brother" come up with for Doodle, and what is his motive?

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

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

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