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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. What does Daddy have Mr. Heath make for Doodle?
(a) A special bed.
(b) A wheelchair.
(c) A casket.
(d) A cart.

2. When Doodle first begins to move, how does Mama feel?
(a) Puzzled.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Overjoyed.
(d) Apathetic.

3. What do Doodle and Brother do to pass the time when they are out and need to stop walking so that Doodle can rest?
(a) They take turns reading to each other.
(b) They practice throwing a ball.
(c) They make up stories.
(d) They imagine their future together.

4. Where do Doodle and Brother imagine living when they are older?
(a) New York City.
(b) In a houseboat.
(c) In a treehouse.
(d) Old Woman Swamp.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Doodle cry when Brother takes him to see the "only beauty" Brother knows (3)?

2. What Biblical event does Aunt Nicey mention when the boys tell the family that they have a big surprise for them?

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?

4. When Mama tells Brother that she is afraid that Doodle might not be "all there," what is Brother's response (2)?

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?

(see the answer key)

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