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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 "The Blessing Tobacco," where do the tribal police find David's grandmother?
(a) In the woods.
(b) In the old graveyard.
(c) In a stranger's house.
(d) By the river.

2. How does David imagine feeling when he returns to Rab's?
(a) Triumphant.
(b) Defensive.
(c) Frustrated.
(d) Embarrassed.

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

4. What technique is used in "Get Me Some Medicine," when David says that "the lights were dim like honey" (41)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Synesthesia.

5. In "In a Jar," where does Frick place the yellow straw wrapped in red cloth?
(a) On David's windowsill.
(b) Underneath David's bed.
(c) Above the door.
(d) Behind the front step.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David says that the burning sage "smelled calm, like salt water" (10)?

2. By the end of "Food for the Common Cold," what do Frick and David understand about David's mother for the first time?

3. What does David keep in the black plastic tub?

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what are Frick and David's mother arguing about besides the old graveyard?

5. In "The Blessing Tobacco," why is Paige in David's room when he wakes up from his nap?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," how does David use the layout of the hospital as a metaphor for the human mind?

6. 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?

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

8. In "Food for the Common Cold," what are David's mother's and David's grandmother's opposing opinions about telling Frick about the hysterectomy?

9. In "Burn," what point about economic realities on the reservation does David make as he steps in the boot prints along the sidewalk on his way home?

10. Which details does Talty include in "In a Jar" that make clear to the reader that David's life before the reservation did not include many other Native people?

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