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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 the context of "Burn," what is the most likely meaning of the term "skeejin" (1)?
(a) Person lacking economic means.
(b) Young adult or teenager.
(c) Person with a substance use disorder.
(d) Native or indigenous person.

2. In "Get Me Some Medicine," when the lights go on in the bar, what does David notice?
(a) Their surroundings are filthy.
(b) There is a bullet casing on the table.
(c) The men playing pool are white.
(d) The floor is slick with rainwater.

3. In "In a Jar," what kind of feather does Frick use in the smudging ceremony?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Owl.
(c) Hawk.
(d) Heron.

4. 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 person exhausted from too much abdominal exercise.
(c) A seal flopping onto an ice floe.
(d) A fish hauled into the bottom of a rowboat.

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the name of the child in the pictures David's mother finds?
(a) Elspeth.
(b) Julianne.
(c) Corinne.
(d) Deidre.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," where does Frick place the yellow straw wrapped in red cloth?

2. How does David imagine feeling when he returns to Rab's?

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

4. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what technique is used in David's paraphrase of Fellis's questions: "How much he pays. How much he makes" (44)?

5. When "Get Me Some Medicine" begins, how long has it been since David last spoke to his father?

(see the answer key)

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