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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. In "In a Jar," where does Frick place the yellow straw wrapped in red cloth?
(a) Behind the front step.
(b) Above the door.
(c) Underneath David's bed.
(d) On David's windowsill.

2. How does David imagine feeling when he returns to Rab's?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Defensive.
(c) Triumphant.
(d) Embarrassed.

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) Parallelism.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Chiasmus.

4. What is Fellis's mother's name?
(a) Laura.
(b) Beth.
(c) Mary.
(d) Sadie.

5. What technique is used when David says that no one has shoveled "since the last nor'easter crapped snow in November" (1)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used when David hears the sound of a man moaning and he says "with my cold ear I followed it" (2)?

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

3. What does David's mother collect?

4. In "In a Jar," when Paige first arrives, what does David realize their mother has not told Paige about?

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

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