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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 "Half-Life," what does David frequently mention as a way of implying that his circumstances are getting worse and worse and he feels powerless to save himself?
(a) Avalanches and being buried.
(b) Tornadoes and blowing away.
(c) Fire and being burned.
(d) Floods and drowning.

2. In "Smokes Last," what item of clothing is Tyson constantly trying, unsuccessfully, to keep clean?
(a) His jacket.
(b) His shoes.
(c) His hat.
(d) His pants.

3. 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)?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Parallelism.

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

5. 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 disappeared from their lives, having taken off after losing another baby.
(c) She has moved into Overtown to attend the community college there.
(d) After a fight with her mother, she has gone back to live with her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Earth, Speak," what rumor does Beth share about Ralph Nelson?

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," why does David hurry to fill his grandmother's wood box?

3. Why is Fellis feeling so sick?

4. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," who repeatedly calls Fellis's house?

5. In "Earth, Speak," what is the implied reason that David lost his take-home privileges at the methadone clinic?

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