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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 "Half-Life," what do David's mother and grandmother both ask him at different times?
(a) Whether he is sleeping.
(b) When he is going to get a job.
(c) Why he broke up with Tabitha.
(d) Whether he has heard from Paige.

2. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what reason does Fellis give David for dropping out of college?
(a) He only enrolled to get his mother to stop nagging him about his future.
(b) He was frustrated and embarrassed at his own poor education.
(c) He was harassed by white students and subjected to racial slurs.
(d) He only enrolled so that he could drop out and get a refund check.

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 exhausted from too much abdominal exercise.
(c) A seal flopping onto an ice floe.
(d) A person who is too heavily intoxicated to get up unassisted.

4. In "In a Jar," what kind of feather does Frick use in the smudging ceremony?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Owl.
(c) Heron.
(d) Hawk.

5. In "Earth, Speak," why is David so sick in the period right after he runs from the police?
(a) He is suffering from withdrawal.
(b) He has an infected wound on his forehead.
(c) He has hypothermia.
(d) He ate spoiled food at Ralph's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Half-Life," what is David covered in when he flees his grandmother's house?

2. In "Half-Life," what does David frequently mention as a way of implying that his circumstances are getting worse and worse and he feels powerless to save himself?

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how has David been making money?

4. In "The Blessing Tobacco," what does David's grandmother offer him after she offers him a cigarette?

5. In "Earth, Speak," what does David infer when he hears the dogs barking?

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