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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 "Get Me Some Medicine," what technique is used in David's paraphrase of Fellis's questions: "How much he pays. How much he makes" (44)?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Antistrophe.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Chiasmus.

2. By the end of "Food for the Common Cold," what do Frick and David understand about David's mother for the first time?
(a) Why she refuses to attend church with her own mother.
(b) Why she feels so insecure about her position in the tribe.
(c) Why she is so angry at the way Paige has chosen to grieve.
(d) Why she is so attached to the old graveyard.

3. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what question does Frick ask David when David comes in to sit on the couch in the middle of the night?
(a) What is wrong with his grandmother.
(b) Why he is out of bed.
(c) Whether he wants a cigarette.
(d) Whether there is any wine left.

4. 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) Two-fours.
(d) Tinnies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used when David says that no one has shoveled "since the last nor'easter crapped snow in November" (1)?

2. What technique is used when David asks Fellis if Fellis wants him to "Tell the ice to let go" (3)?

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

4. In "Safe Harbor," what has David come to the clinic to bring his mother?

5. When "Get Me Some Medicine" begins, how long has it been since David last spoke to his father?

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