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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Half-Life" and "Earth, Speak".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Safe Harbor," what does the reader learn about David's father?
(a) He has died.
(b) He has moved to Maine.
(c) He has offered David a job.
(d) He is in jail.

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) Allegory.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Verbal irony.

3. In "Safe Harbor," what has David come to the clinic to bring his mother?
(a) Paperwork.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Identification.
(d) Money.

4. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used in the naming of Fellis's truck, "Einhell"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Verbal Irony.
(d) Synesthesia.

5. In "The Blessing Tobacco," whom does David's grandmother mistake him for?
(a) Fellis.
(b) Frick.
(c) David's father.
(d) Robbie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used when David describes Fellis's face as "kind of like if you'd put two black dots and a line on an orange" (90)?

2. 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?

3. In "In a Jar," what is David's reaction to the medicine pouch that Frick gives him?

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

5. In "Half-Life," what does Frances ask David to take care of before he leaves the assisted living facility?

(see the answer key)

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