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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 "In a Jar," what happens to Paige on the night the siblings hear the knocking in the walls?
(a) She is bitten on the leg.
(b) She gets food poisoning.
(c) She takes an accidental overdose.
(d) She falls down the front steps.

2. In "In a Jar," where does Frick place the yellow straw wrapped in red cloth?
(a) Above the door.
(b) Underneath David's bed.
(c) On David's windowsill.
(d) Behind the front step.

3. In "In a Jar," where do David and Paige go with their grandmother?
(a) Her house.
(b) The community center.
(c) Grocery shopping.
(d) Church.

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what technique is used when David says that when he returns to the kitchen, "all that remained at the table was the rest of the coffee and a freshly snubbed-out cigarette that glowed red int he ashtray" (66)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Personification.
(d) Synecdoche.

5. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David says that the burning sage "smelled calm, like salt water" (10)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Personification.
(d) Synesthesia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," how old is David?

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what gift has David recently been given by his father?

3. In "In a Jar," what is the most likely motivation for Paige calling David "chagooksis...little shit" (15)?

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

5. What technique is used in "Get Me Some Medicine," when David says that "the lights were dim like honey" (41)?

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