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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Smokes Last," what does David believe is the reason his mother has been irritable with him and Frick lately?
2. In "Safe Harbor," what kind of medication does David's mother regularly take?
3. In "Smokes Last," what thematic motif does the setting of the clearing in the woods symbolically reinforce?
4. In "Smokes Last," what are the sources of most of the insults characters use against one another?
5. In "Half-Life," what slang word do David and Fellis use to refer to the pills they are both taking?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Safe Harbor," what suspicion does David have about the worker outside the clinic in the beginning of the story that is borne out by the man's remarks near the story's end?
2. In "Night of the Living Rez," what does David think the woman has in the Gatorade bottle, and how does he later learn what the liquid really is?
3. In "Earth, Speak," why is Fellis so angry at Daryl?
4. In "Smokes Last," how do David and Tyson end up breaking a window?
5. In the beginning of "Smokes Last," what is ironic about David's mother's instructions to him before he leaves to play in the woods with his friends?
6. In "Earth, Speak," how does David's mother respond when she realizes that it is him in her boiler room?
7. At the end of "Night of the Living Rez," how is David's mother's behavior similar to her behavior near the end of "Earth, Speak"?
8. In "Night of the Living Rez," what is David's rhetorical purpose in describing the details of how his mother is driving as she questions him about his father?
9. In "Earth, Speak," how does a comment from Tabitha seem paradoxical to David?
10. In "Safe Harbor," what does David's reaction to his mother's medical crisis reveal about their relationship?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What symbolic role does hair play in the stories in Night of the Living Rez? In "Burn," why is Fellis trapped by his hair, why does he want David to retrieve it, and what do David's thoughts about whether to get the hair or some pot first signify? Why is there hair in the jar in "In a Jar?" Why does David make a point of mentioning his mother's short hair several times in the earlier stories, and what happens to her hair over the course of the collection? In later stories, what is the significance of characters whose hair has come unbraided? Using evidence from the text and from outside resources, write an analysis of the symbolic value of hair in Night of the Living Rez. Cite quoted material and borrowed ideas in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Now that you have finished the collection, you have seen many more instances of the ideas of "medicines." Choose one kind of "medicine" that recurs in these stories. You can choose anything that has the potential to be a source of healing--nature, ceremony, pharmaceuticals, human relationships, etc. Trace the impact of this form of medicine on David's life. As you structure your discussion, remember that the stories are not presented in chronological order, but that a clear discussion of this topic should be, tracing the impact of the medicine you have chosen from David's early life through to his adulthood and showing any changes over time. Support your discussion with evidence drawn from throughout the text, citing any quoted evidence in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Now that you have read the entire collection, what foreshadowing do you see in the discovery of the glass jar in "In a Jar"? How does this foreshadowing relate to the symbolic function of miniatures and containers in this story? What larger theme developed in this collection does this support? Write an essay in which you analyze the symbolic function of containers and miniatures in "In a Jar" and then connect this to events that take place later in the collection, showing how this symbolism is being used to introduce one of the text's thematic motifs. Support your assertions with evidence drawn from throughout the collection, citing any quoted material in MLA format.
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