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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: "Night of the Living Rez" and "The Name Means Thunder".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Earth, Speak," what is the bad smell outside Daryl's uncle's cabin coming from?
(a) The skunk under the porch.
(b) A dead deer.
(c) Mounds of garbage.
(d) The outhouse.

2. In "Half-Life," what does David compare the assisted living facility to?
(a) A cave.
(b) Chalk.
(c) Plastic.
(d) A prison.

3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what does David say he and Fellis usually use for gambling chips?
(a) Beans.
(b) Paperclips.
(c) Buttons.
(d) Spaghetti.

4. In "Night of the Living Rez," what is all over David's face when his mother comes home at the end of the story?
(a) Ash.
(b) Tears.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Blood.

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," what technique is used when David says that when he returns to the kitchen, "all that remained at the table was the rest of the coffee and a freshly snubbed-out cigarette that glowed red int he ashtray" (66)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the cause of the terrible smell in David's mother's house?

2. In "The Blessing Tobacco," whom does David's grandmother mistake him for?

3. In "Safe Harbor," how many times has David's mother been in the crisis stabilization clinic during the past three months?

4. In "Night of the Living Rez," how does David feel the world changes each time he comes home from a visit to his father?

5. In "Food for the Common Cold," how old is David?

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