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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars" and "The Blessing Tobacco".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What selfless gesture does David make to comfort Fellis?
(a) He offers to cut his own hair.
(b) He offers to buy Fellis marijuana.
(c) He gives Fellis his own coat.
(d) He covers Fellis's hair with his own hat.

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what gift has David recently been given by his father?
(a) An air rifle.
(b) A slingshot.
(c) A toy truck.
(d) A basketball.

3. In "The Blessing Tobacco," how does David's grandmother react when the first puff of the cigarette makes him cough?
(a) She tells him to stop smoking it.
(b) She tells him to stop pretending.
(c) She laughs in surprise.
(d) She shows him how to inhale without coughing.

4. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used in the naming of Fellis's truck, "Einhell"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Verbal Irony.

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," what new information is revealed about Paige?
(a) After a fight with her mother, she has gone back to live with her father.
(b) She has moved into Overtown to attend the community college there.
(c) She has disappeared from their lives, having taken off after losing another baby.
(d) Unable to get along with Frick, she now lives with her grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he and Fellis usually use for gambling chips?

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David's grandmother imply is the reason Frick does not accept David and Paige as his own children?

3. In the context of "Burn," what is the most likely meaning of the term "skeejin" (1)?

4. What technique is employed when David says that "the river was still frozen, ice shining white-blue under a full moon" (1)?

5. In "In a Jar," what happens to David's medicine pouch?

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