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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 "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what technique is used in the naming of Fellis's truck, "Einhell"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Verbal Irony.

2. In "In a Jar," what happens to Paige on the night the siblings hear the knocking in the walls?
(a) She is bitten on the leg.
(b) She takes an accidental overdose.
(c) She falls down the front steps.
(d) She gets food poisoning.

3. What technique is used when David asks Fellis if Fellis wants him to "Tell the ice to let go" (3)?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Personification.
(d) Synesthesia.

4. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what television show have David and Fellis been watching?
(a) Breaking Bad.
(b) The Wire.
(c) The Sopranos.
(d) Ozark.

5. 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 exhausted from too much abdominal exercise.
(c) A fish hauled into the bottom of a rowboat.
(d) A person who is too heavily intoxicated to get up unassisted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David keep in the black plastic tub?

2. What techniques are used in "Safe Harbor" when David says "sharp pine trees clutter and lean into each other, and cardinals and finches flutter and jet from tree to tree" (127)?

3. In "The Blessing Tobacco," how old does David say his great-uncle was when he died?

4. What is the name of the marijuana dealer whom David goes into town to see?

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," what gift has David recently been given by his father?

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