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

2. In "In a Jar," where do David and Paige go with their grandmother?
(a) Her house.
(b) Church.
(c) Grocery shopping.
(d) The community center.

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what television show have David and Fellis been watching?
(a) The Sopranos.
(b) Breaking Bad.
(c) The Wire.
(d) Ozark.

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

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," who is the first person to notice the strange smell in David's mother's house?
(a) David's mother.
(b) David's grandmother.
(c) Frick.
(d) David.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," what technique is used when David says that when he returns to the kitchen, "all that remained at the table was the rest of the coffee and a freshly snubbed-out cigarette that glowed red int he ashtray" (66)?

2. By the end of "Food for the Common Cold," what do Frick and David understand about David's mother for the first time?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," when the lights go on in the bar, what does David notice?

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the cause of the terrible smell in David's mother's house?

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

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