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

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

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what reason does Fellis give David for dropping out of college?
(a) He only enrolled to get his mother to stop nagging him about his future.
(b) He only enrolled so that he could drop out and get a refund check.
(c) He was frustrated and embarrassed at his own poor education.
(d) He was harassed by white students and subjected to racial slurs.

4. What technique is used when David asks Fellis if Fellis wants him to "Tell the ice to let go" (3)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Personification.

5. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he and Fellis usually use for gambling chips?
(a) Beans.
(b) Buttons.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Paperclips.

Short Answer 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)?

2. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how has David been making money?

3. In "In a Jar," where does Frick place the yellow straw wrapped in red cloth?

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

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

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