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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Get Me Some Medicine" and "Food for the Common Cold".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," how old is David?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 7.
(d) 13.

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the name of the child in the pictures David's mother finds?
(a) Julianne.
(b) Deidre.
(c) Corinne.
(d) Elspeth.

3. What technique is used when David hears the sound of a man moaning and he says "with my cold ear I followed it" (2)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Allegory.

4. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what reason does Fellis give David for dropping out of college?
(a) He only enrolled to get his mother to stop nagging him about his future.
(b) He only enrolled so that he could drop out and get a refund check.
(c) He was frustrated and embarrassed at his own poor education.
(d) He was harassed by white students and subjected to racial slurs.

5. What does David's mother collect?
(a) Beadwork.
(b) Bird figurines.
(c) Salt and pepper shakers.
(d) Miniatures.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what television show have David and Fellis been watching?

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

3. What is Fellis's mother's name?

4. In "In a Jar," what happens to Paige on the night the siblings hear the knocking in the walls?

5. How does David imagine feeling when he returns to Rab's?

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