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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 technique is used when David hears the sound of a man moaning and he says "with my cold ear I followed it" (2)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Allegory.

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David use as a symbol of the unhappiness in his household?
(a) The scarcity of food.
(b) The smoke from the stove.
(c) The crooked door.
(d) The crumbling steps.

3. Why is Fellis feeling so sick?
(a) He has taken an unnamed street drug.
(b) He is exhausted and hypothermic.
(c) He missed his methadone dose.
(d) He has a respiratory virus.

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," how old is David?
(a) 13.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

5. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how has David been making money?
(a) Working as a landscaper.
(b) Selling porcupine carcasses.
(c) Government disability checks.
(d) Selling marijuana.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what happens to Paige on the night the siblings hear the knocking in the walls?

2. In "In a Jar," what is David's reaction to the medicine pouch that Frick gives him?

3. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David says that the burning sage "smelled calm, like salt water" (10)?

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

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

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