The Scarlet Ibis Comprehension Quiz
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- Q1The narrator's desire to help Doodle walk are motivated by all of the following exceptpridefamilysafetyinsecurity30s
- Q2What do the graveyard flowers at the beginning of the story foreshadow?The cemetery hired a new florist.It is the best time of the year to plant a garden.The narrator loved to grow things.There will most likely be a death.30s
- Q3Doodle's go cart (wagon) symbolizes everything EXCEPTthe burden his brother deals withhis disabilityhis family's ability to adapt to his situationhis freedom and independence30s
- Q4What does the scarlet ibis symbolize?Aunty NiceyDoodleHopeThe narrator30s
- Q5All of the following are examples of foreshadowing in "The Scarlet Ibis" EXCEPTThe ibis dying.The narrator saying that Doodle's real name would sound good on a tombstone.The story beginning with mention of rotting flowers and death.Doodle learning to walk.30s
- Q6What is Doodle's real name?Scarlet ArmstrongWilliam ArmstrongNicey ArmstrongDoodle Armstrong30s
- Q7What is wrong with Doodle?He is not smartHe is too tallHe's not "all there"He has some medical condition30s
- Q8Doodle being referred to as a scarlet ibis at the end of the story is an example ofsimilemetaphorliteral languagethesis30s
- Q9What made the narrator decide that Doodle was mentally healthy?Doodle crawledDoodle smiledDoodle rolled overDoodle cried30s
- Q10What did the narrator make Doodle do in the barn?Touch the mahogany casketClimb the ladder to the loftGet down from the loft on his ownHide behind a screech owl's nest30s