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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 does David's grandmother imply is the reason Frick does not accept David and Paige as his own children?
(a) He hates their biological father.
(b) They are half white.
(c) They do not really love Frick.
(d) They remind Frick of David's mother's life before him.

2. 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) Allusion.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Personification.

3. 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.

4. What technique is used in "Get Me Some Medicine," when David says that "the lights were dim like honey" (41)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does Frick dislike about the birthday present David's father has given him?
(a) He thinks it is too expensive.
(b) He thinks it is too babyish for David.
(c) He associates it with white children.
(d) He thinks that David will hurt himself with it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David use as a symbol of the unhappiness in his household?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he and Fellis usually use for gambling chips?

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. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the name of the child in the pictures David's mother finds?

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