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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Burn" and "In a Jar".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used when David asks Fellis if Fellis wants him to "Tell the ice to let go" (3)?
(a) Verbal irony.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Understatement.

2. What is the implied reason that Fellis's lip is purple?
(a) He is sick.
(b) He is wearing lipstick.
(c) He has been in a fight.
(d) He is very cold.

3. Why is Fellis feeling so sick?
(a) He has taken an unnamed street drug.
(b) He missed his methadone dose.
(c) He is exhausted and hypothermic.
(d) He has a respiratory virus.

4. Where does David go on the bus every day?
(a) Work.
(b) The methadone clinic.
(c) Fellis's house.
(d) School.

5. What technique is employed when David says that "the river was still frozen, ice shining white-blue under a full moon" (1)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Simile.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what happens to David's medicine pouch?

2. What is Frick's real name?

3. To what does David compare the sound of the ice cracking in the swamp?

4. What does David's mother collect?

5. What does David imagine the store owner, Jim, making a joke about?

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