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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What deadline do Doodle and Brother set for Doodle's physical training?
2. What is Brother's real name?
3. Who gives Doodle his nickname?
4. Why does Brother treat Doodle roughly when he first starts taking him outside in his cart?
5. When Brother finally decides to treat Doodle like a brother, where does he take him for the first time?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Doodle get his nickname?
2. How does Daddy react to the hurricane, and what emotions do his reactions cause in his sons?
3. What future do "Brother" and Doodle imagine for themselves at Old Woman Sawmp?
4. What do Doodle and "Brother" do with the flowers at Old Woman Swamp?
5. 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?
6. When the family get excited and try to hug "Brother" for teaching Doodle to walk, how does "Brother" react, and why?
7. When Doodle and "Brother" take up telling one another stories to pass the time, what story does Doodle tell?
8. How old is Doodle when he learns to walk, and why is his age relevant to him learning to walk?
9. What changes in the narrator's life when Daddy makes Doodle a cart?
10. Where is the grindstone and what is its symbolic meaning?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you consider the significance of the stories that the two brothers tell one another. They often imagine their future, and sometimes they pass time by making up stories about imaginary worlds. What do these stories tell the reader about the characters and about their motives? Be sure to use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze the importance of Doodle's birth "in a caul" (1). What does this represent to various characters, what does it represent in Western culture, and how do these representations have significance for the role that Doodle will eventually play in the family's life? Be sure to cite in MLA format any outside sources that you use, and offer textual support for your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Hurst offers a great deal of foreshadowing in the opening of "The Scarlet Ibis." Write an essay in which you analyze the first five paragraphs' use of foreshadowing--identify elements of foreshadowing and explain what they predict, and how.
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