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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 "Get Me Some Medicine," why does Fellis leave the bag of beers in the woods?
(a) He is worried that David will drink them all.
(b) He is planning ahead for the assault on Meekew.
(c) He does not want his addiction counselor to see him with beer.
(d) He does not want to try to take them into the bar.

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

3. What technique is used when David hears the sound of a man moaning and he says "with my cold ear I followed it" (2)?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Verbal irony.

4. What is Frick's real name?
(a) Charles.
(b) Melvin.
(c) Fred.
(d) Everett.

5. What technique is used in "Get Me Some Medicine," when David says that "the lights were dim like honey" (41)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Synesthesia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what is the real cause for Fellis dropping out of college?

3. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David learn for the first time about his own birth?

4. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David says that the burning sage "smelled calm, like salt water" (10)?

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

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