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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Half-Life" and "Earth, Speak".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what technique is used when David comments that he "wondered when Grammy would send her last message" (117)?
(a) Situational irony.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Apostrophe.

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," who is the first person to notice the strange smell in David's mother's house?
(a) David's mother.
(b) David's grandmother.
(c) David.
(d) Frick.

3. In "Earth, Speak," what is the implied reason that David lost his take-home privileges at the methadone clinic?
(a) He threatened the nurse practitioner.
(b) He has been doubling up on his doses.
(c) He has been selling the take-home doses.
(d) He missed an appointment.

4. When "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars" takes place, how long has David been seeing Tabitha?
(a) Two months.
(b) Four months.
(c) Three months.
(d) One month.

5. 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) Metaphor.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Imagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he finds mysterious about Fellis?

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the name of the child in the pictures David's mother finds?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what television show have David and Fellis been watching?

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," whom does David's grandmother mistake him for?

5. In "Earth, Speak," what techniques are used when David says that "morning fog hovered above miles of pines like the nests of fall webworms in the crooks of brown branches" (199)?

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