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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Get Me Some Medicine" and "Food for the Common Cold".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what does David compare Fellis when he sees him struggling to sit up?
(a) A fish hauled into the bottom of a rowboat.
(b) A seal flopping onto an ice floe.
(c) A person exhausted from too much abdominal exercise.
(d) A person who is too heavily intoxicated to get up unassisted.

3. 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 is so angry at the way Paige has chosen to grieve.
(b) Why she feels so insecure about her position in the tribe.
(c) Why she is so attached to the old graveyard.
(d) Why she refuses to attend church with her own mother.

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David learn for the first time about his own birth?
(a) His mother's postpartum depression after his birth caused her to get her tubes tied.
(b) His parents did not plan to have him and did not really want him.
(c) He was supposed to be one of a pair of twins.
(d) His birth caused his mother to hemorrhage and nearly die.

5. In "Get Me Some Medicine," when the lights go on in the bar, what does David notice?
(a) The men playing pool are white.
(b) Their surroundings are filthy.
(c) The floor is slick with rainwater.
(d) There is a bullet casing on the table.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," where do David and Paige go with their grandmother?

2. In "In a Jar," why does David struggle to remember the details of the move to the reservation?

3. In "Food for the Common Cold," who is the first person to notice the strange smell in David's mother's house?

4. What technique is employed when David says that "the river was still frozen, ice shining white-blue under a full moon" (1)?

5. In "In a Jar," what happens to David's medicine pouch?

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