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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars" and "The Blessing Tobacco".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is revealed about how Frick's daughter died?
(a) She had an asthma attack after being out in the woods in winter for several hours.
(b) She was in Frick's truck when it was hit by another vehicle.
(c) She developed a rare form of childhood cancer.
(d) She had a serious respiratory virus that Frick ignored until it was too late.

2. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what movie are Fellis and David supposed to return?
(a) Transcendence.
(b) The Martian.
(c) The Matrix.
(d) Inception.

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

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what does David's grandmother offer him after she offers him a cigarette?
(a) Juice.
(b) Milk.
(c) Beer.
(d) Coffee.

5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used when David describes Fellis's face as "kind of like if you'd put two black dots and a line on an orange" (90)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," whom does David's grandmother mistake him for?

3. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," where is David trying to get a job?

4. In "Food for the Common Cold," what new information is revealed about Paige?

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the name of the child in the pictures David's mother finds?

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