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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Fellis's mother's name?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Beth.
(c) Mary.
(d) Laura.

2. 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) Personification.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Metaphor.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how has David been making money?

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," why does David hurry to fill his grandmother's wood box?

3. 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)?

4. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what movie are Fellis and David supposed to return?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what is the rhetorical function of the passage where David considers whom he should "smoke like" (108)?

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," when David is feeling sick, how does Paige demonstrate her concern and affection?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what details demonstrate that David's friendship with Fellis does not blind David to Fellis's faults?

4. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what is Fellis's ostensible issue with Meekew, and what does the story imply is his real issue?

5. In "In a Jar," what is in the jar David finds, and why does it upset his mother?

6. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what does David try over and over to do on the way home from his grandmother's house, and what is the significance of this?

7. In "Food for the Common Cold," what reason does Frick give for wanting to tear the headstone down, and what commentary does David offer about this?

8. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David do after the argument between Frick and his mother about the headstone?

9. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how do David and Fellis end up binge-watching an old television series?

10. In "In a Jar," what is implied to have happened to Paige at the end of the story?

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