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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 the name of the child in the pictures David's mother finds?
(a) Julianne.
(b) Deidre.
(c) Corinne.
(d) Elspeth.

2. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what television show have David and Fellis been watching?
(a) Breaking Bad.
(b) The Wire.
(c) Ozark.
(d) The Sopranos.

3. 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.

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," who is the first person to notice the strange smell in David's mother's house?
(a) David's grandmother.
(b) Frick.
(c) David's mother.
(d) David.

5. 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 remind Frick of David's mother's life before him.
(c) They do not really love Frick.
(d) They are half white.

Short Answer Questions

1. What selfless gesture does David make to comfort Fellis?

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

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he finds mysterious about Fellis?

4. What is the implied reason that Fellis's lip is purple?

5. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David describes church: "When we had to kneel, we knelt; when we had to sing, we sang; when we had to pray, we prayed" (20)?

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