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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 "Smokes Last," what thematic motif does the setting of the clearing in the woods symbolically reinforce?
(a) A child surrounded by poor role models is unlikely to thrive.
(b) Insularity is a natural response to constant prejudice from outsiders.
(c) Substance abuse is an understandable response to trauma.
(d) Growing up on the reservation can be lonely and difficult.

2. In "Safe Harbor," how does David end up in the emergency room, himself?
(a) He is assaulted.
(b) He overdoses.
(c) He has a car accident.
(d) He has a panic attack.

3. What techniques are used in "Safe Harbor" when David says "sharp pine trees clutter and lean into each other, and cardinals and finches flutter and jet from tree to tree" (127)?
(a) Rhyme and synesthesia.
(b) Asyndeton and parallelism.
(c) Parallelism and rhyme.
(d) Synesthesia and asyndeton.

4. 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 associates it with white children.
(c) He thinks that David will hurt himself with it.
(d) He thinks it is too babyish for David.

5. At the end of "Smokes Last," what does David's mother leave on his dresser?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) A note from Paige.
(c) A news article.
(d) Twenty dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Safe Harbor," what has David come to the clinic to bring his mother?

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David learn for the first time about his own birth?

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

4. In "Smokes Last," what is implied when David tells his mother about the Western Union money and she says "I think I can drive" (152)?

5. In "The Blessing Tobacco," how does David's grandmother react when the first puff of the cigarette makes him cough?

(see the answer key)

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