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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 "Food for the Common Cold," what is revealed about how Frick's daughter died?
(a) She was in Frick's truck when it was hit by another vehicle.
(b) She developed a rare form of childhood cancer.
(c) She had an asthma attack after being out in the woods in winter for several hours.
(d) She had a serious respiratory virus that Frick ignored until it was too late.

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what new information is revealed about Paige?
(a) Unable to get along with Frick, she now lives with her grandmother.
(b) She has moved into Overtown to attend the community college there.
(c) She has disappeared from their lives, having taken off after losing another baby.
(d) After a fight with her mother, she has gone back to live with her father.

3. In "In a Jar," what is David's reaction to the medicine pouch that Frick gives him?
(a) He thinks it is itchy and unnecessary.
(b) He wonders about the death of the deer the hide came from.
(c) He thinks it smells strange and is old-fashioned.
(d) He is intrigued to learn more about traditional beliefs.

4. What is the implied reason that Fellis's lip is purple?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He has been in a fight.
(c) He is wearing lipstick.
(d) He is very cold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," what happens on the Thursday of the week that Frick stays away from David's mother's house?

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

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

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what technique is used when David says that when he returns to the kitchen, "all that remained at the table was the rest of the coffee and a freshly snubbed-out cigarette that glowed red int he ashtray" (66)?

5. What is the name of the marijuana dealer whom David goes into town to see?

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