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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1" "The Scarlet Ibis".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does the ibis die?
(a) One of the family's cats attacks it.
(b) Brother shoots it.
(c) Daddy shoots it.
(d) It dies of natural causes.
2. Why does Brother cry when everyone hugs him for teaching Doodle to walk?
(a) He is afraid he might have hurt Doodle and they will find out.
(b) He knows that he did it for the wrong reasons.
(c) He rarely gets the family's attention.
(d) He is so relieved that everything went just right.
3. 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) Metaphor and imagery.
(b) Hyperbole and sarcasm.
(c) Irony and understatement.
(d) Personification and simile.
4. When Mama tells Brother that she is afraid that Doodle might not be "all there," what is Brother's response (2)?
(a) He decides to kill Doodle.
(b) He asks if that is what the doctor said.
(c) He tells her that they will have to wait and see.
(d) He says that he will love Doodle anyway.
5. How does the family react when the boys reveal that Doodle can walk?
(a) They worry about the danger it puts Doodle in.
(b) They insist that the family all pray together.
(c) They refuse to believe it is really happening.
(d) They are overjoyed.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Doodle and Brother leave to do after lunch?
2. Who does Doodle suggest that Brother can marry?
3. 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?
4. What is the narrative point of view of "The Scarlet Ibis"?
5. What does the doctor say about Doodle trying to move around?
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