Scarlet Ibis Quiz

Read the following passage, and make an inference on Doodle's parents. "...when he was three months old Mama and Daddy decided they might as well name him."

• Doodle's parents did not believe in naming a child until three months old.
• Doodle's parents have trouble coming up with names.
• Doodle's parents did not expect him to live, so they did not give him a name beforehand.
• Doodle chose not to be named.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Identify the literary device used in the following passage: "They named him William Armstrong, which was like tying a big tail on a small kite."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• allusion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does the word "imminent" mean as used in the following passage: "Wtih success so imminent, we decided not to tell anyone until he could actually walk."

• spread throughout
• condition of being unlikely to fail
• likely to happen soon
• insecurely

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Read the following passage and state what the narrator's actions indirectly reveal about his attitude toward Doodle: "One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we had all believed he would die... Doodle said, 'It's not mine.' 'It is, ' I said. 'And before I'll help you down from the loft, you're going to have to touch it.' "

• The narrator's deep rooted resentment & embarrassement for Doodle.
• The narrator's need to have authority over Doodle.
• The narrator's excitement over Doodle's casket.
• The narrator's love for Doodle.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How does the setting of the story affect Doodle's parents' attitude toward him at birth?

• Medicine was not as advanced back then in 1918 as it is today; therefore, Doodle's parents disregarded him, doubting that he would survive long.
• With the harsh storms, Doodle's parents thought he would not survive.
• Doodle's parents could not feed him because of the blight.
• Naming second children at birth was not customary.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does the word infallibility mean as used in the following passage? "Once I had succeeded in teaching Doodle to walk, I began to believe in my own infallibility and I prepared a terrific development program for him."

• inability to be wrong or fail
• insecurely
• likely to happen soon
• opinion that differed from that of the orthodox religion / church.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Read the following passage, and choose which word does NOT add to the diction showing both Doodle's limitiations and perseverance: "When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to try to move himself straining terribly. The doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn't. Trembling...he'd push himself up, turning first read, then a soft purple, and finalliy collapse."

• strain
• push
• collapse
• laid

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Which of the following examples is NOT a symbol of death in "The Scarlet Ibis"?

• Doodle's coffin
• the blight of the crops
• the peacock in Doodle's "lies"
• The color red

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What does the word "precariously" mean as used in the following passage? "On the topmost branch a bird the size of a chicken, with scarlet feathers and long legs, was perched precariously."

• unlikely to fail or be wrong
• insecurely
• likely to happen soon
• opinion that differed from that of the orthodox religion / church.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which is NOT a simile?

• "They named him William Armstrong, which was like tying a big tail on a small kite."
• "...the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds."
• "He collapsed onto the grass like a half-empty flour sack."
• "Pride is a ... seed that bears two vines, life and death."

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7