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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. In "In a Jar," what happens to Paige on the night the siblings hear the knocking in the walls?
(a) She gets food poisoning.
(b) She is bitten on the leg.
(c) She falls down the front steps.
(d) She takes an accidental overdose.

2. 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) Understatement.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Allegory.

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

4. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he finds mysterious about Fellis?
(a) Why Fellis resents Beth so much.
(b) What caused Fellis to drop out of college.
(c) What Fellis really has against Meekew.
(d) Where Fellis gets his money from.

5. What technique is used when David says that no one has shoveled "since the last nor'easter crapped snow in November" (1)?
(a) Synecdoche.
(b) Personification.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Allusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David imagine the store owner, Jim, making a joke about?

2. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what task has Beth asked Fellis to take care of for her?

3. What does David's mother collect?

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what new information is revealed about Paige?

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David learn for the first time about his own birth?

(see the answer key)

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