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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Safe Harbor" and "Smokes Last".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David describes church: "When we had to kneel, we knelt; when we had to sing, we sang; when we had to pray, we prayed" (20)?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Parallelism.

2. In "Safe Harbor," what is the name of the woman that asks David to get her some cigarettes?
(a) Norma.
(b) Wendy.
(c) Donna.
(d) Meryl.

3. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," who is Alice?
(a) A nurse at the hospital.
(b) Tabitha's friend.
(c) Fellis's aunt.
(d) A friend of David's mother.

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what are Frick and David's mother arguing about besides the old graveyard?
(a) Frick's desire to have another child.
(b) Frick's treatment of David.
(c) David's mother's suspicion that Frick is cheating on her.
(d) Frick's drinking habits.

5. What does David imagine the store owner, Jim, making a joke about?
(a) Wet hair making a mess.
(b) Paying for Native scalps.
(c) David being a hair stylist.
(d) Fellis's hair looking like an old mop.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he and Fellis usually use for gambling chips?

2. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what is one thematic point reinforced when Fellis cannot return the movie he was supposed to return?

3. At the end of "Smokes Last," what does David's mother leave on his dresser?

4. In "Safe Harbor," what kind of medication does David's mother regularly take?

5. In "In a Jar," when Paige first arrives, what does David realize their mother has not told Paige about?

(see the answer key)

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