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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. Who is the only person who does not expect Doodle to die soon after his birth?
2. Why, at the end of summer, does Brother start to push Doodle so hard in his "training" efforts?
3. Doodle has an active mind and talks a lot. What is his family's reaction to this?
4. What is "Doodle" short for?
5. When Brother says, of the hope they had when they started training, "Success lay at the end of summer like a pot of gold" (7), what should the reader understand from this simile?
Short Essay Questions
1. When "Brother" tells Doodle that he is going to teach Doodle to walk, what is Doodle's response?
2. What is the family's reaction to Doodle when he is born?
3. When Doodle learns to walk, where does the family put his cart, and why is this symbolically appropriate?
4. When school is getting closer, at the end of the summer, how is Doodle doing with his physical training, and what is the result?
5. How old is Doodle when he learns to walk, and why is his age relevant to him learning to walk?
6. Toward the end of summer, how does "Brother" say that he and Doodle are feeling about the training, and why do they keep going?
7. How does Doodle get his nickname?
8. When Doodle and "Brother" take up telling one another stories to pass the time, what story does Doodle tell?
9. What images of death does the story open with?
10. Which character says "And bless the Pearsons, whose boy Joe was lost at Belleau Wood" (8) and what does this comment foreshadow?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
What has the narrator learned from his brother's death? Use evidence from the text to demonstrate how his attitudes and beliefs have either stayed the same or changed between the time when he was a child and the time when he tells this story.
Essay Topic 3
Write a thesis-driven essay in which you analyze the setting of Old Woman Swamp. Consider questions like these: What events take place there? How do the boys feel while they are there? Why does it matter that it is a natural setting and that it is described as the only spot of beauty around them? Be sure to use textual evidence as support for your claims.
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