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

2. What technique is employed when David says that "the river was still frozen, ice shining white-blue under a full moon" (1)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

3. In "In a Jar," what is the most likely motivation for Paige calling David "chagooksis...little shit" (15)?
(a) She is angry at the mischief David causes.
(b) She is tired of being responsible for her younger sibling.
(c) She is engaging in affectionate teasing.
(d) She is irritable and tired because of her pregnancy.

4. In "In a Jar," why does David struggle to remember the details of the move to the reservation?
(a) He was asleep for most of the move.
(b) He had a high fever during the move.
(c) It was a long time ago.
(d) He is too young to understand what is happening.

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 is worried that David will drink them all.
(d) He does not want to try to take them into the bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what is one thematic point reinforced when Fellis cannot return the movie he was supposed to return?

2. What selfless gesture does David make to comfort Fellis?

3. In "In a Jar," when Paige and her mother get into an argument about her pregnancy, what prediction does Paige make?

4. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what television show have David and Fellis been watching?

5. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what does the reader learn David's grandmother's first name is?

(see the answer key)

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