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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 slang word do David and Fellis use to refer to the pills they are both taking?
(a) Sleepers.
(b) Pins.
(c) Super Valium.
(d) Tranks.

2. In "Earth, Speak," what techniques are used when David says that "morning fog hovered above miles of pines like the nests of fall webworms in the crooks of brown branches" (199)?
(a) Simile and personification.
(b) Metaphor and imagery.
(c) Personification and metaphor.
(d) Imagery and simile.

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he finds mysterious about Fellis?
(a) Why Fellis resents Beth so much.
(b) Where Fellis gets his money from.
(c) What caused Fellis to drop out of college.
(d) What Fellis really has against Meekew.

4. 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 gets food poisoning.
(c) She takes an accidental overdose.
(d) She falls down the front steps.

5. In "In a Jar," when Paige and her mother get into an argument about her pregnancy, what prediction does Paige make?
(a) Their mother's use of alcohol will cause her early death.
(b) Their mother's temper will drive Frick away just like their father.
(c) David will grow up to hate their mother.
(d) Paige's baby will never know its grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Earth, Speak," why was David kicked out of his house?

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

3. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is revealed about how Frick's daughter died?

4. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," where is David trying to get a job?

5. What is the implied reason that Fellis's lip is purple?

(see the answer key)

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