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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 does David keep in the black plastic tub?
(a) Trading cards.
(b) Marbles.
(c) Toy figures.
(d) Crayons.

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

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

4. 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) Antithesis.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Anadiplosis.

5. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David says that the burning sage "smelled calm, like salt water" (10)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the context of "Burn," what is the most likely meaning of the term "skeejin" (1)?

2. What technique is used when David says that no one has shoveled "since the last nor'easter crapped snow in November" (1)?

3. To what does David compare Fellis when he sees him struggling to sit up?

4. What is Frick's real name?

5. In "In a Jar," what kind of feather does Frick use in the smudging ceremony?

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