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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. When, on page 8, Brother says that they kept working with "doggedness," what does he mean?
(a) They worked playfully and happily.
(b) They worked slowly and methodically.
(c) They worked beyond the point that is reasonable.
(d) They worked with determination and persistence.
2. How does Brother motivate Doodle to keep trying to learn to walk?
(a) He tells him that their mother and father will love him more if he can walk.
(b) He shames him by making him imagine being an old man pulled around in a cart.
(c) He tells Doodle that other boys will make fun of him if he cannot walk.
(d) He reminds Doodle of how hard he worked to learn to crawl.
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) Irony and understatement.
(c) Hyperbole and sarcasm.
(d) Personification and simile.
4. What is it reasonable to assume the flower necklaces floating away toward the sea at the end of the day might symbolize?
(a) The brief nature of youth and innocence.
(b) The ease with which nature can be harmed.
(c) The danger of Doodle's trust in Brother.
(d) The beauty of Brother and Doodle's relationship.
5. How does the family react when the boys reveal that Doodle can walk?
(a) They refuse to believe it is really happening.
(b) They are overjoyed.
(c) They worry about the danger it puts Doodle in.
(d) They insist that the family all pray together.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Doodle cry when Brother takes him to see the "only beauty" Brother knows (3)?
2. What does Brother say causes him to run home during the storm?
3. What explanation does Daddy offer for the ibis's behavior?
4. When Brother picks Doodle up, trying to teach him to walk, and Doodle falls to the ground, what does Doodle say?
5. What is the narrative point of view of "The Scarlet Ibis"?
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