The Scarlet Ibis Test | Final Test - Hard

James Hurst
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 85 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Scarlet Ibis Test | Final Test - Hard

James Hurst
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 85 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 is the first problem the family's crops have in the year that Brother is training Doodle?

2. What is Doodle's real name?

3. What do Mama and Daddy say about Brother's plan to train Doodle physically?

4. At first, Daddy is upset by the hurricane and looks defeated. What does he do that makes Brother and Doodle think that things will be all right?

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. How does Doodle die?

2. When the family get excited and try to hug "Brother" for teaching Doodle to walk, how does "Brother" react, and why?

3. What "training" plan does "Brother" come up with for Doodle, and what is his motive?

4. When they are eating lunch on the day the ibis appears, what argument are the brothers having?

5. How does Daddy react to the hurricane, and what emotions do his reactions cause in his sons?

6. When the narrator finally realizes that he will have to take Doodle everywhere he goes, where does he take Doodle, and what is Doodle's reaction?

7. What are Chateau-Thierry, Amiens, and Soissons, and how do they relate to this story?

8. How old is Doodle when he learns to walk, and why is his age relevant to him learning to walk?

9. Whenever Doodle wants to quit trying to learn how to walk, how does "Brother" motivate him to keep trying?

10. What changes in the narrator's life when Daddy makes Doodle a cart?

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

Write an essay in which you analyze the use of World War I as a background for this story. Explain how thematic motifs in this story are related to World War I and how the story is made richer by this association. Be sure to use textual evidence to support your claims, and if you use outside sources, cite them in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

Is there any defense of "Brother's" actions where Doodle is concerned? Write an essay in which you consider both why "Brother" did what he did and what effects his actions had in Doodle's life. Be sure to use textual support for your claims.

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