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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Safe Harbor" and "Smokes Last".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what is David's mother too preoccupied with to notice that David is feeling sick?
(a) Looking for a job.
(b) Her fight with Frick.
(c) Selling her jewelry.
(d) Talking on the phone.

3. In "The Blessing Tobacco," whom does David's grandmother mistake him for?
(a) Robbie.
(b) Fellis.
(c) David's father.
(d) Frick.

4. 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)?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Anadiplosis.

5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what does the burning chicken casserole demonstrate about the characters' lives?
(a) Family relationships are a never-ending series of obligations, and sometimes not everyone gets what they need.
(b) People with a lot of chaos in their lives generally cause a lot of their own problems.
(c) Small everyday problems are more complex and can get out of control more quickly when you are working with limited resources.
(d) Even adverse circumstances sometimes provide a chance to laugh at the absurdity of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Frick's real name?

2. At the end of "Smokes Last," what does David's mother leave on his dresser?

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

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the cause of the terrible smell in David's mother's house?

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

(see the answer key)

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