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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. When Fellis asks Meekew why he is with "winooches" in "Get Me Some Medicine," what is it most reasonable to infer that "winooch" means (43)?
(a) Stranger.
(b) Woman.
(c) White person.
(d) Snob.

2. By the end of "Food for the Common Cold," what do Frick and David understand about David's mother for the first time?
(a) Why she is so angry at the way Paige has chosen to grieve.
(b) Why she feels so insecure about her position in the tribe.
(c) Why she is so attached to the old graveyard.
(d) Why she refuses to attend church with her own mother.

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he and Fellis usually use for gambling chips?
(a) Beans.
(b) Spaghetti.
(c) Paperclips.
(d) Buttons.

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what gift has David recently been given by his father?
(a) A basketball.
(b) A slingshot.
(c) A toy truck.
(d) An air rifle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Jar," why does David struggle to remember the details of the move to the reservation?

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

3. In "In a Jar," where do David and Paige go with their grandmother?

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what does David's grandmother imply is the reason Frick does not accept David and Paige as his own children?

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

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