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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: "Safe Harbor" and "Smokes Last".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of "Smokes Last," what is David's mother making for dinner?
(a) Grilled cheese.
(b) Bologna sandwiches.
(c) Corn fritters.
(d) Hamburgers.

2. In "In a Jar," what technique is used when David describes church: "When we had to kneel, we knelt; when we had to sing, we sang; when we had to pray, we prayed" (20)?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Antithesis.
(c) Anadiplosis.
(d) Chiasmus.

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

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

5. In "In a Jar," when Paige first arrives, what does David realize their mother has not told Paige about?
(a) Her reasons for leaving their father.
(b) Her relationship with Frick.
(c) The jar they found behind the step.
(d) That the move north is permanent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Blessing Tobacco," how many cigarettes does David say he smoked before he lost count?

2. In "Safe Harbor," what has David come to the clinic to bring his mother?

3. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," why is David so quick to agree to take Fellis to his frequent mental health appointments?

4. In "Safe Harbor," where has David recently gotten a job?

5. In "Safe Harbor," what does the reader learn about David's father?

(see the answer key)

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