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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: "Get Me Some Medicine" and "Food for the Common Cold".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," what are Frick and David's mother arguing about besides the old graveyard?
(a) David's mother's suspicion that Frick is cheating on her.
(b) Frick's desire to have another child.
(c) Frick's treatment of David.
(d) Frick's drinking habits.

2. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what is the colloquial name used for the kind of beers that are in the bag when David hits Meekew?
(a) Tall boys.
(b) Tinnies.
(c) Pounders.
(d) Two-fours.

3. To what does David compare Fellis when he sees him struggling to sit up?
(a) A person who is too heavily intoxicated to get up unassisted.
(b) A seal flopping onto an ice floe.
(c) A fish hauled into the bottom of a rowboat.
(d) A person exhausted from too much abdominal exercise.

4. In "In a Jar," what happens to Paige on the night the siblings hear the knocking in the walls?
(a) She takes an accidental overdose.
(b) She is bitten on the leg.
(c) She gets food poisoning.
(d) She falls down the front steps.

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," what new information is revealed about Paige?
(a) After a fight with her mother, she has gone back to live with her father.
(b) She has disappeared from their lives, having taken off after losing another baby.
(c) Unable to get along with Frick, she now lives with her grandmother.
(d) She has moved into Overtown to attend the community college there.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," what is David's reaction to the medicine pouch that Frick gives him?

2. What technique is used in "Get Me Some Medicine," when David says that "the lights were dim like honey" (41)?

3. In "Food for the Common Cold," who is the first person to notice the strange smell in David's mother's house?

4. What selfless gesture does David make to comfort Fellis?

5. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what television show have David and Fellis been watching?

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