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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David use as a symbol of the unhappiness in his household?
(a) The crumbling steps.
(b) The scarcity of food.
(c) The crooked door.
(d) The smoke from the stove.

2. To what does David compare Fellis when he sees him struggling to sit up?
(a) A person exhausted from too much abdominal exercise.
(b) A fish hauled into the bottom of a rowboat.
(c) A person who is too heavily intoxicated to get up unassisted.
(d) A seal flopping onto an ice floe.

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

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

5. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what is the colloquial name used for the kind of beers that are in the bag when David hits Meekew?
(a) Tinnies.
(b) Two-fours.
(c) Pounders.
(d) Tall boys.

6. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how has David been making money?
(a) Working as a landscaper.
(b) Selling porcupine carcasses.
(c) Government disability checks.
(d) Selling marijuana.

7. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what task has Beth asked Fellis to take care of for her?
(a) Taking out the garbage.
(b) Mailing a letter.
(c) Checking on an elderly neighbor.
(d) Washing a load of laundry.

8. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what technique is used in David's paraphrase of Fellis's questions: "How much he pays. How much he makes" (44)?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Antistrophe.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Anaphora.

9. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does Frick dislike about the birthday present David's father has given him?
(a) He thinks it is too expensive.
(b) He associates it with white children.
(c) He thinks that David will hurt himself with it.
(d) He thinks it is too babyish for David.

10. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the cause of the terrible smell in David's mother's house?
(a) No one has taken out the garbage in several weeks.
(b) The drains are clogged with uneaten food.
(c) A turtle has crawled under the house and died.
(d) Someone has stuffed a rotten fish under the stoop.

11. In "Get Me Some Medicine," when the lights go on in the bar, what does David notice?
(a) The men playing pool are white.
(b) The floor is slick with rainwater.
(c) There is a bullet casing on the table.
(d) Their surroundings are filthy.

12. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," where is David trying to get a job?
(a) Family Dollar.
(b) Tribal Maintenance.
(c) T.J. Maxx.
(d) UPS.

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

14. 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.

15. In "In a Jar," what is David's reaction to the medicine pouch that Frick gives him?
(a) He thinks it is itchy and unnecessary.
(b) He thinks it smells strange and is old-fashioned.
(c) He is intrigued to learn more about traditional beliefs.
(d) He wonders about the death of the deer the hide came from.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What selfless gesture does David make to comfort Fellis?

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David learn for the first time about his own birth?

5. In "In a Jar," when Paige first arrives, what does David realize their mother has not told Paige about?

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