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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 "The Blessing Tobacco," what technique is used when David comments that he "wondered when Grammy would send her last message" (117)?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Situational irony.

2. In "Smokes Last," what does David steal from Tyson's house?
(a) Pork rinds.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Bread.
(d) Twenty dollars.

3. In "Safe Harbor," what kind of medication does David's mother regularly take?
(a) Antidepressants.
(b) Antipsychotics.
(c) Narcotics.
(d) Benzodiazepines.

4. 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) Asyndeton and parallelism.
(b) Rhyme and synesthesia.
(c) Synesthesia and asyndeton.
(d) Parallelism and rhyme.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used when David asks Fellis if Fellis wants him to "Tell the ice to let go" (3)?

2. In "Food for the Common Cold," what gift has David recently been given by his father?

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)?

4. In "In a Jar," when Paige and her mother get into an argument about her pregnancy, what prediction does Paige make?

5. In "Earth, Speak," what surprises David about the inside of Daryl's cabin?

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