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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: "Half-Life" and "Earth, Speak".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the name of the child in the pictures David's mother finds?
(a) Deidre.
(b) Julianne.
(c) Corinne.
(d) Elspeth.

2. In "Safe Harbor," what medical crisis does David's mother experience?
(a) A seizure.
(b) An asthma attack.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) A stroke.

3. In "Earth, Speak," why was David kicked out of his house?
(a) He overdosed on the living room couch.
(b) He threatened to hit his mother.
(c) He stole from his mother.
(d) He brought a loaded weapon inside the house.

4. What technique is used when David says that no one has shoveled "since the last nor'easter crapped snow in November" (1)?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Personification.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Synecdoche.

5. In "Half-Life," how does David rationalize breaking into his grandmother's house?
(a) Any money she has is part of his inheritance.
(b) She will not have left any money there.
(c) His grandmother would give him the money if she were there.
(d) She owes his mother money for her nursing care.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. In "Half-Life," what does Frances ask David to take care of before he leaves the assisted living facility?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he and Fellis usually use for gambling chips?

4. In "Earth, Speak," what is the bad smell outside Daryl's uncle's cabin coming from?

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

(see the answer key)

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