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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. 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) Tall boys.
(b) Pounders.
(c) Tinnies.
(d) Two-fours.

2. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," who repeatedly calls Fellis's house?
(a) Cheryl.
(b) Alice.
(c) Tabitha.
(d) David's mother.

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

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where is Paige working?
(a) The liquor store.
(b) The grocery store.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A pawnshop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does David compare Fellis when he sees him struggling to sit up?

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what technique is used when David comments that he "wondered when Grammy would send her last message" (117)?

3. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used when David describes Fellis's face as "kind of like if you'd put two black dots and a line on an orange" (90)?

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

5. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what reason does Fellis give David for dropping out of college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "In a Jar," what does David's mother tell him about Goog'ooks?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," why does Fellis get so angry at David for saying that Meekew could beat Fellis in a fistfight?

4. In "Burn," how dis Fellis end up stuck in the snow?

5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what does David point to as the beginning of the breakdown in his relationship with Tabitha?

6. 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?

7. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where does David get a drink on his way home from his grandmother's, and what is the significance of this?

8. In "Food for the Common Cold," when David's mother tells David's grandmother "Miracles can happen.... But I don't want to risk what happened before," what is she talking about (65)?

9. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the difference between the way the adult narrator David and the child David in the story see the mood in the household during the week that Frick is gone?

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

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