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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Burn" and "In a Jar".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what kind of feather does Frick use in the smudging ceremony?
(a) Owl.
(b) Heron.
(c) Eagle.
(d) Hawk.

2. What technique is used when David asks Fellis if Fellis wants him to "Tell the ice to let go" (3)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Personification.
(d) Synesthesia.

3. To what does David compare the sound of the ice cracking in the swamp?
(a) The sound of summer fireworks.
(b) Distant gunshots.
(c) Someone walking around them.
(d) Doors opening and shutting.

4. In "In a Jar," what happens to David's medicine pouch?
(a) He gives it to Paige to protect the baby.
(b) He loses it when he is outside playing.
(c) It gets wedged between the bed and the wall.
(d) It goes through the wash with his shirt and falls apart.

5. What technique is employed when David says that "the river was still frozen, ice shining white-blue under a full moon" (1)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David keep in the black plastic tub?

2. What is Frick's real name?

3. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David describes church: "When we had to kneel, we knelt; when we had to sing, we sang; when we had to pray, we prayed" (20)?

4. In "In a Jar," what is David's reaction to the medicine pouch that Frick gives him?

5. Why is Fellis feeling so sick?

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