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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," how old is David?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 13.
(d) 7.
2. How does David imagine feeling when he returns to Rab's?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) Triumphant.
(d) Defensive.
3. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," where does David say he met Tabitha?
(a) Her job.
(b) The bar.
(c) The bus.
(d) The clinic.
4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what happens on the Thursday of the week that Frick stays away from David's mother's house?
(a) David's father calls and threatens to sue for custody of David.
(b) David's mother stays out all night, leaving David alone in the house.
(c) David's grandmother appears and insists that David go with her to church.
(d) David's mother takes him out to Frick's bush camp for the night.
5. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what is David's mother too preoccupied with to notice that David is feeling sick?
(a) Her fight with Frick.
(b) Talking on the phone.
(c) Selling her jewelry.
(d) Looking for a job.
6. In "Food for the Common Cold," what new information is revealed about Paige?
(a) Unable to get along with Frick, she now lives with her grandmother.
(b) After a fight with her mother, she has gone back to live with her father.
(c) She has disappeared from their lives, having taken off after losing another baby.
(d) She has moved into Overtown to attend the community college there.
7. Why is Fellis feeling so sick?
(a) He is exhausted and hypothermic.
(b) He missed his methadone dose.
(c) He has taken an unnamed street drug.
(d) He has a respiratory virus.
8. In "In a Jar," where do David and Paige go with their grandmother?
(a) Grocery shopping.
(b) Church.
(c) Her house.
(d) The community center.
9. When Fellis asks Meekew why he is with "winooches" in "Get Me Some Medicine," what is it most reasonable to infer that "winooch" means (43)?
(a) White person.
(b) Snob.
(c) Woman.
(d) Stranger.
10. In "The Blessing Tobacco," whom does David's grandmother mistake him for?
(a) David's father.
(b) Robbie.
(c) Frick.
(d) Fellis.
11. What technique is used when David says that no one has shoveled "since the last nor'easter crapped snow in November" (1)?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Allusion.
12. 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) Antistrophe.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Antithesis.
13. To what does David compare Fellis when he sees him struggling to sit up?
(a) A seal flopping onto an ice floe.
(b) A fish hauled into the bottom of a rowboat.
(c) A person who is too heavily intoxicated to get up unassisted.
(d) A person exhausted from too much abdominal exercise.
14. What technique is employed when David says that "the river was still frozen, ice shining white-blue under a full moon" (1)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Hyperbole.
15. 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) Tall boys.
(c) Two-fours.
(d) Pounders.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where is Paige working?
2. In "In a Jar," what happens to David's medicine pouch?
3. What does David imagine the store owner, Jim, making a joke about?
4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the cause of the terrible smell in David's mother's house?
5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used in the naming of Fellis's truck, "Einhell"?
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