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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) Understatement.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Personification.
(d) Verbal irony.

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

3. In "In a Jar," when Paige and her mother get into an argument about her pregnancy, what prediction does Paige make?
(a) Their mother's use of alcohol will cause her early death.
(b) Their mother's temper will drive Frick away just like their father.
(c) Paige's baby will never know its grandmother.
(d) David will grow up to hate their mother.

4. What does David imagine the store owner, Jim, making a joke about?
(a) Wet hair making a mess.
(b) Paying for Native scalps.
(c) David being a hair stylist.
(d) Fellis's hair looking like an old mop.

5. What does David's mother collect?
(a) Miniatures.
(b) Beadwork.
(c) Salt and pepper shakers.
(d) Bird figurines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed when David says that "the river was still frozen, ice shining white-blue under a full moon" (1)?

2. What is Fellis's mother's name?

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

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

5. In "In a Jar," what is the most likely motivation for Paige calling David "chagooksis...little shit" (15)?

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